Abstract:
The Study was aimed to observe teaching and learning practice in reading class of Kindergarten
students using Phonics method. The study involved one subject teacher and the students as the
subjects of the research. The study was conducted by using non-participant observation in
kindergarten reading class in international based school with 23 students. The observation was done
in five meetings to identify how far the use of phonics help students to read. For four meetings, the
students were taught reading three-letter words using Phonics method by the subject teacher
followed by several examples of the words being learned. At the end of the meeting, the students
were asked to read simple sentences. From the study it showed that the students could easily follow
the instruction delivered by the subject teacher. In four afore meetings, the students could integrated
every sound of letter in word. In the end, the students could read the word fluently. To this point, the
phonics method taught by the subject teacher was fair effectively help students to understand and
read the word in English sentence. |
