Teacher Efforts In Improving Letter Knowledge Ability For Early Childhood Education

Abstract

Recognizing letters in students is the basis for students being able to read. This study uses learning while playing with words, pictures, and letter cards as media. This study, recognizing letters, aims to discover and develop ways of learning to introduce letters to students with more fun methods and attract students' attention at PAUD Bunda Serdang Bedagai. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. Interviews, observations, and field studies do data collection. In this study, the principal, teacher, and researcher worked together to use word cards, picture cards, and letter cards as media. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. The research data is in the form of letter recognition activities using word cards, word cards, picture cards, and letter cards as media. Researchers obtained data from school principals, class teachers, accompanying teachers, students, and several parents of students. They are collecting data through observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis is done through data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions, and verification. The results showed that the teacher's efforts to improve the ability to recognize letters for early childhood students with the initial method still needed to be more effective. Students could only know how to write, not know the letters well. However, using the word card method, picture cards, and letter cards makes it more effective for students to know letters better, not only in writing but students know the shapes of letters and how to pronounce them randomly or sequentially

Keywords

• Letter knowledge, PAUD Bunda, word cards