Local wisdom-based story calendar: Improving student’s narrative writing skills in elementary school

Abstract

The research aims to: (1) develop a local wisdom-based story calendar to improve narrative writing skills and (2) reveal the effectiveness of the developed story calendar. This research was R & D applying Brog & Gall model (1983). The subjects were fourth-grade students of elementary schools in Semarang, Indonesia. The data collection was through observation, interviews, and questioners. The data analysis used the independent sample t-test at the significance level of 0.05. The results of the research show that: (1) the developed story calendar has passed the criteria of feasibility with very good criteria;(2) the local wisdom-based story calendar is effective to improve the narrative writing skills based on the t-test results with a significance level of < 0.05, that is 0.000. Through the pictures, local wisdom-based stories, and some literacy activities in the developed story calendar, elementary students can write narrative text more directed and easily.

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