School Literacy Movement

Abstract

Literacy is an ability that students must develop from an early age. This literacy is related to reading and writing. This ability will later become provisions for future children's lives in their daily lives. However, the level of literacy in Indonesia is still low. This condition shows that the Indonesian people are still weak in accepting various sources of information and even easily accepting hoax news among the public. In early childhood, literacy education can be started with the habit of reading story books and fairy tales to children regularly. Efforts that can be done by implementing the school literacy movement, the implementation of the school literacy movement can include the habituation stage, development and learning. The teacher can invite children to write, listen and communicate a theme or topic in the book that the child reads. Although this activity is a simple activity, however, reading books to children is the initial stage of their introduction to the world of literacy.