Analysis of Elementary Students' Reading Difficulties and its Relevance to Teacher and Parent Guidance

Abstract

The existence of teacher guidance is one of the most significant factors. Teachers are the most important part of the teaching and learning process, both in formal and informal education channels. Therefore, in every effort to improve the quality of education in the country, it cannot be separated from various matters relating to the existence of the teacher himself. while parents are everyone who is responsible for family or household duties in daily life both in children's educational activities or others, because with parental attention, it can minimize the occurrence of learning difficulties in students. Early reading learning difficulties are reading learning difficulties in elementary school children in grade III. This study aims to describe the difies of beginning reading in students and find out how the guidance of teachers and parents in learning activities. This research uses a descriptive approach. Subjects were grade III students, teachers and parents. The results show that the difficulties in reading of grade III elementary school students are: (1) Not yet able to connect basic words into a sentence; (2) always wrong in spelling activities and pronouncing letters. (3) always mistaken in pronouncing basic words (4) difficulty spelling and combining first and last syllables; (5) spelling slowly and disjointedly and sometimes incorrectly; (6) not yet able to read a sentence consisting of three basic words; (7) very slow progress in reading skills.