Ability of Literacy for 5-6 Year Old Children in Kindergarten Bambanglipuro Bantul

Abstract

The research theme related to hoax and child development. The research aimed to determine the level of literacy ability for children with the age between 5-6 year old. Literacy means the ability to read and write to solve one`s problems, meet one`s need, learn new information and find pleasure in the written literary works. Literacy includes recognizing the letters of the alphabet, and associating roughly 20 letters and their sounds, begining to have an understanding of phonemic awareness (each word has its own sound), begining reading and wrtiting simple consonant-vowel-consonant words and be able to recognize a few simple sight words. The research's type is quantitative descriptive research method by using observation technique with rubrics checklist tool. The study population is children aged 5-6 years in kindergarten in the subdistrict of Bambanglipuro Bantul. The sample of research about 180 children were taken from eleven kindergartens in