Peran Parent Involvement Dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Literasi Membaca-Menulis Siswa Sekolah Dasar

Abstract

Literacy skills are the most basic important skills that must be possessed, learned and improved since elementary school age children as a provision for learning everything. Literacy is defined as the ability to interpret, reach and carry out something wisely, with a variety of activities such as observing, reading, writing, observing and speaking. This study aims to find out the role of parental involvement in improving reading-writing literacy skills. This research uses a qualitative descriptive approach method with data collection techniques through literature review. Obstacles that can be passed in improving literacy skills are, interests, talents, abilities of each child are different, lack of discipline of children in the process of habituation of literacy activities, inadequate facilities and infrastructure. Thus based on the results of the study it can be seen that, 1) parents act as motivators, mentors, friends for children through good parenting methods. 2) parents act as facilitators, providing books, writing utensils, work boards. 3) parents have a role to apply a variety of varied methods such as, inviting children to read stories, making simple papers, analyzing text content and so on. It can be concluded that parents need to guide children to do literacy activities every day, so that children who are accustomed to it will make this literacy activity a good habit to increase insight and knowledge, increase vocabulary, and sharpen themselves in capturing information from reading.