Profile of Early Reading Skills Among First-Grade Elementary Students

Abstract

The problem addressed in this research concerns the early reading skills of First Grade of elementary school students, who are in a transition period from Kindergarten (TK) to elementary school (SD). The purpose of this research is to determine the early reading skills of First Grade elementary school students in Kecamatan Ceper. This research uses a descriptive qualitative research method. The steps in this research includes determining the research subjects, preparing research instruments, conducting reading tests using the instruments, analysing the test results, and drawing conclusions. The instrument of data collection used in this research are tests and documentation. The subjects of this research consist of 35 First Grade of elementary school students in Kecamatan Ceper. The test was conducted on 35 students using an early reading instrument consisting of five test items: reading vowel letters, consonant letters, syllables, basic words (nouns, adjectives, verbs, and affixed words), and simple sentences. Based on the tests that have been conducted, the results show that there are 22 students or around 63% who scored below the minimum passing grade of 75. So, from the data above, it can be concluded that the early reading skills of First Grade elementary school students in Kecamatan Ceper are underperforming, since more than half of the students scored below the passing grade.