THE APPLICATION OF EDUTAINMENT METHOD IN DEVELOPING BEGINNER-LEVEL WRITING COMPETENCY FOR STUDENTS OF EARLY GRADE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Beginner-level writing is one of the dimensions in language development of early grade students in elementary school that need to be focused on. Writing is the final stage of literacy learning. Theoretically, before learning to write, children must go through some stages, such as listening, speaking and reading. In developing the competency of beginner-level writing for students of early grade in elementary school, a fun method must be used so that children can participate in activities well and without feeling depressed. One of the methods is known as edutainment. Edutainment is a combination of educational content that is presented with entertainment which aims at stimulating children to learn beginner-level writing through fun and interesting activities. Learning beginner-level writing with edutainment methods can be done with a variety of games, role playing activities or involvement of attractive learning media. With the edutainment method, children will not feel bored in learning beginner-level writing.