Educating Children through Increasing Interest in Reading Books

Abstract

The aims of this study is to describe that the development of the era which is increasing in this digital era requires parents to pay more attention to the development of their children's personality, especially in the field of education, both formal education and non-formal education from the family, in terms of increasing children's literacy or interest in reading. to books both school lessons and books about knowledge. Introducing children to books even when they are toddlers by reading them is one way for children to love and enjoy reading books. The reality these days is that many children grow and develop b ut don't like reading books. In increasing interest in reading, the active role of parents and the school is required because interest in reading does not grow by itself among children, but must continue to be nurtured and encouraged from the surrounding environment. Some areas have reading rooms to increase people's interest in reading. The purpose of writing this journal is to find out the importance of education through increasing interest in reading in children since they were toddlers so that children love books more and enjoy reading, so that their knowledge increases. The type of research used and carried out in this journal is a descriptive qualitative method. Data collection was carried out through a study of increasing interest in reading in gra de 4 students of the MI school by establishing a reading corner and making it a habit to read books and then summarizing them every 15 minutes every day. Data collection in this journal is taken from various sources both books and scientific data in the form of manuscripts as evidenced by the inclusion of a bibliography. The result of the literature study is that there is a strong correlation between the level of interest in reading from the role of school and parents in children.