Improving Learning Activities and Writing Skills in Indonesian Language Content the Environmental Theme of Our Friends Using the Proton Model at Sdn Hatungun 1 Tapin

Abstract

Learning activities have a big influence on the success of a lesson, this also has a big influence on students' writing skills. But in fact, the method used when learning is still one-way, learning is less meaningful so that students are unable to find ideas/ideas into written form, students' writing interest is low because they use multiple choice questions, many students are still not correct in determining the choice. words (diction) in a sentence, the placement of punctuation marks is not right and they don't understand what a nonfiction story is. This study aims to determine the increase in learning activities and writing skills of elementary school students using the PROTON model. This study uses a qualitative research approach with the type of research in the form of Classroom Action Research which consists of four meetings, data analysis uses two methods, namely qualitative and quantitative. The results showed that by using the PROTON model on the Indonesian content of the Friends of Our Environment Theme there was an increase in student learning activities at the fourth meeting, namely 87.5% in the very active category and in students' writing skills at the fourth meeting as much as 93.75% in the very category. good. The results of this study are expected to be used as an alternative in improving the learning activities and writing skills of elementary school students, especially in the Indonesian content of the Environmental Theme of Our Friends in grade 5.