The Impact of Powtoon Animation on Early-Reading Ability of Children Aged 5-6 At The 1 Padang State Kindergarten

Abstract

The background of this research is that the teaching of reading in early childhood has not yet been developed so that there are still many children who experience difficulties in pre-reading such as; recognize letters, read words into simple sentences. By utilizing current technological sophistication, the study aims to determine the effect of Powtoon animation on early reading skills in children aged 5-6 years at 1 Padang State Kindergarten. This study uses a quantitative approach with Quasi Experiments. The population in this study were all students at 1 Padang State Kindergarten, with the research sample being class B2 and class B3, each of which had 15 children. Data were collected using observation sheet and data were processed by different test (t-test) using the SPSS 22.0 application for windows. Based on data analysis, the Pre-Test and Post-Test results for the Experiment class were 44,93 and 62,00. In the Control class the average Pre-Test and Post-Test results were 44,07 and 57,87. The resulting data is normally distributed and homogeneous. On the hypothesis test with Independent sample t-test, the sig value (2-taied) is 0,039 < 0,05. It can be concluded that early reading using Powtoon animation media has proven to have an effect on the beginning reading ability of children aged 5-6 years.