Brainstorming in scientific writing in elementary school

Abstract

Brainstorming as a strategy in scientific writing in elementary school writing instrusction was succesfully proven by this study. There is a relationship between brainstorming as a strategy to writing instruction and students scientific writing ability. Improved learning out comes of students' expository writing as scientific writing in a staight forward, logical, sytematic and functional manner of items, or events in chronological was achieved after brainstorming is implemented to grade five elementary school. Based on the research and development approach, the data obtained in the trail 1 (13 males and 15 famales participants) was 13,50 and trail 2 was 14,07. This means that brainstorming as a strategy has the opportunity for language teachers to teach students writing skills. The instruction of brainstorming strategy had a positive effect on students scientific writing improvement and also make them more active.