APPLICATION OF STRUCTURED QUESTIONS TO IMPROVE INDONESIAN PARAGRAPH WRITING ABILITY

Abstract

The background of this research is to improve the ability to write Indonesian paragraphs through structured questions for fifth grade students of SDN 9 Bone, Bone Bolango Regency. The subjects of this study were students of class V, totaling 13 students, with 3 male students and 10 female students. The method used is classroom action research by implementing the action in the form of a cycle.

This study shows that the ability to write paragraphs of students in class V SDN 9 Bone is still low. This is indicated by the low ability to write paragraphs of students at the time of initial observation, with a percentage level of 7.69% in the capable category of the total number of students, namely 13 students. Therefore, the researchers took action using structured questions in writing paragraphs, from the results of research conducted on students' paragraph writing skills, there was an increase of 23.07% in the first cycle of the first meeting with the category of being able, 38.46% of the first cycle of the second meeting with able category and 61.53% with capable category in the first cycle of the third meeting. While in the second cycle of the first meeting the increase in learning outcomes reached 76.92% in the capable category and in the second cycle of the second meeting there was an increase.

So the conclusions, including; (1) after carrying out the class action activities, the ability to write paragraphs of students at the time of initial observation reached 7.69% in the poor category; (2) after the class action activities were carried out, the students' paragraph writing skills in the first cycle increased compared to the initial observation of 61.53% with a fairly good category; (3) after the class action activities were carried out, the students' paragraph writing skills in cycle II increased by 84.61% in the good category; (4) increasing the ability to write paragraphs in the aspect of writing paragraphs with good sentence structure, writing with correct spelling, and writing paragraphs with proper punctuation; (5) the application of structured questions to improve the ability to write paragraphs for fifth grade students at SDN 9 Bone, Bone Bolango Regency