Use of the Mini Book to Improve Expositorial Writing Skills of V Class Student of SDN Wonokusumo 1 Surabaya, Indonesia

摘要

To be able to convey and access information well, a person is required to have the ability to read and write. Reality in the field, which in this case in elementary schools shows conditions that are still far from reading habits to write. The habit carried out by the teacher, is to ask students to read the text, then do the question and answer. Not doing writing activity is caused by limited learning time. It could also be caused by the teacher's lack of knowledge about how to implement and motivate students so that diligent and is eager to read and write. This research was conducted in class V A of SDN Wonokusumo 1 Surabaya. This study uses the Class Room Action Research design. Data retrieval is done by observation techniques, field notes, and tests. Based on the results of the research described in the previous section, several conclusions can be stated as follows. Student learning outcomes are seen from the results of the writing contained in the mini book with the criteria as specified. In the first cycle, from students totaling 39 students, classical completeness reached 35 students or 89.7%. In the second cycle, classical completeness reached 37 students or 94.9%. While, the frequency of student writing results, during the second week of the research produced each one mini-book work. In the third week, each student also produced a mini book. So, in this study each student produced two mini-books.