PENGGUNAAN MEDIA KARTU DALAM MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN MEMBACA PERMULAAN SISWA

Abstract

This research is motivated by the fact that there are still many students who are not fluent in reading the beginning and are not able to understand teacher instructions in learning. Through this research, it is hoped that it can improve students' skills in starting reading using word card media. This research is a classroom action research conducted in grade 2 SDN 21 Mandau. . The number of research subjects was 21 students with 12 male students and 9 female students. The data were obtained through reading tests and observations of students' learning activities. The results of the study in the first cycle showed that on average, the classical students had reading skills of 68.88 with 13 people who were able to reach the KKM, meaning that 61.90% of the students had classically reached the predetermined KKM. In cycle II, the average of students' pre-reading skills became 77.46 with the total number of students completing 18 people with a percentage of 85.71%. Based on the results of this study it can be concluded that the beginning reading skills of grade 2 SDN 21 Mandau students have increased through the use of word cards.