Story Books Research Articles

The Image of a Good Child in the Main Character of the Nona Series Picture Story Book by Dian Novitasari

Abstract Storybooks have an important role in building children's character. Through story books, children observe how the characters in them are, especially the main character. Previous studies focused a lot on character. This research aims to describe good children in the main character of the Nona Series picture book by Dian Novitasari which consists of 6 books. These books are Halo, Aku Nona, Ayo Bantu Ibu dan Ayah, Saatnya Bermain, Tersesat di Pasar, Hiih, Nona Takut! and Serunya Naik Angkutan Umum. The research employs a descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques utilize document analysis. The results of the study indicate that there are 16 good child images in the book. These images include being cheerful, independent, brave, helpful, tidy, exploratory, respectful of others, honoring parents, obedient, and socialize, likes animals, likes traditional games, brave, admits mistakes and apologizes and has initiative. This research can be used as a reference for educators and writers to create inspirational texts and images for young children. Keywords: Image; Good Children; Picture Story Book Abstrak Buku cerita mempunyai peran penting dalam membangun karakter anak. Melalui buku cerita, anak mengamati bagaimana tokoh-tokoh yang ada di dalamnya, terutama tokoh utama. Penelitian-penelitian terdahulu banyak berfokus pada karakter. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan anak baik pada tokoh utama buku cerita bergambar Seri Nona karya Dian Novitasari yang terdiri dari 6 buku. Buku-buku tersebut antara lain berjudul Halo, Aku Nona, Ayo Bantu Ibu dan Ayah, Saatnya Bermain, Tersesat di Pasar, Hiih, Nona Takut! dan Serunya Naik Angkutan Umum. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan analisis dokumen. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat 16 citra anak baik dalam buku tersebut. Citra ini mencakup bersikap ceria, mandiri, berani, suka menolong, rapi, eksploratif, menghargai orang lain, menghormati orang tua, patuh, bersosialisasi menyukai binatang, menyukai permainan tradisioanal, pemberani, mengakui kesalahan dan meminta maaf serta memiliki inisiatif. Penelitian ini dapat dijadikan referensi bagi pendidik dan penulis untuk menciptakan teks dan gambar yang inspiratif bagi anak usia dini. Kata kunci: Citra; Anak yang Baik; Buku Cerita Bergambar

Development of 3D Animation in AR-based Children's Storybooks

Along with the advancement of technology, it brings updates in the digital world, namely the reality of the additional world or Augmented Reality (AR). The application of AR has now been applied in various fields, especially in education. This is because the presence of AR makes the learning process fun. One of the basic learning is reading. However, unfortunately sometimes reading through book media becomes quite boring. For children, now the use of smartphones has become something close and common, so that reading books becomes less interesting because it only displays still images. Therefore, this study was conducted to create an interesting book by combining AR technology. The use of this technology aims to develop children's story books based on Augmented Reality (AR) with 3D animation to increase literacy interest in children aged 6-8 years. This study has succeeded in creating a children's story book entitled The Adventures of Budi and Wati, as well as a mobile application with Android OS and has successfully displayed 3D animation from book illustration images. In this study, data collection was used with literature studies in various sources. The process of creating this 3D animation was carried out in 3 stages of production. Pre-production, Production, and Post-production. In the pre-production stage, the research team carried out story idea and script preparation activities, in the production process, the development process, 3D animation development and AR application development were carried out. In the post-production stage, the product trial process was carried out on several devices. The results showed that the application could be run, but on Android products with OS version 14. Even so, the application product can run well on Android OS 14 and display animations smoothly. AR technology presents characters and stories in interactive visual form, so that children are more enthusiastic about getting involved in reading. The application of this technology not only encourages reading interest, but also stimulates children's creativity and imagination through a more enjoyable and immersive reading experience.

Teaching Creative Dance in Early Childhood Through Picture Books

Picture book stories are an important tool for teaching creative dance to children. This article presents a dance activity using a picture book story that educators can use to promote movement exploration and creativity.

Development of Story Book on Mitosis and Meiosis Among Grade-7 for Geographically Disadvantage Area

This study aimed to develop a storybook as learning material on mitosis and meiosis particularly for Grade-7 found in geographically disadvantage areas, due to a lack of visual learning material for the topic in science that needs visualization for its description. The data resulting from the need assessment concludes that science teachers have difficulties teaching mitosis and meiosis due to a lack of visual learning material. This study used a 4D model for the development of a storybook. The respondents of this study are composed of thirty-five (35) Grade-7 students of Madamba National High School. The students’ performance during pretest students got 7.69 with a standard deviation of 2.153 this means that on average the students have a very low level of performance in the pretest. On the other hand, the posttest has a mean score of 22.51 with a standard deviation of 4.300. This means that on average the students have achieved a level that is closely approximating mastery in the posttest of conceptual understanding. This study concludes that the Development of a storybook on mitosis and meiosis as science learning material for Grade-7 in Geographically disadvantage areas is effective. It is recommended for all teachers who have difficulties with visual learning material due to a lack of technological tools.

The Auto/biographical Nature of Ukrainian Women’s Literature on the War in Donbas

In the close reading of Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s drama Bad Roads (2017), Yevgeniya Podobna’s book of stories and memoirs titled Girls Cutting Their Locks (2018), and Tamara Duda’s novel Daughter (2019), the author of the article examines the relations between subject and object of the Donbas war texts in the framework of their creation, auto/biographic nature, gender optics, and therapeutic effect. The goal of the study is to analyze how auto/biographical narratives employ actualization of life, leading to the fictionalization of drama and prose texts, which results in heterobiography or synthesis of auto/biographical narratives with heterobiographies. Mostly processed by professional writers, the documentary accounts of military experience of women characters convey the evidence of Zeitgeist, which forms a unique writing in modern war literature. The paper discusses the perspective of women, forms of undermining patriarchy, and rhetoric of “national autobiography” along with self-consciousness and self-reflexivity as markers of auto/biographical texts of Ukrainian women writers of the period in the selected texts.

DEVELOPMENT OF PICTURE STORYBOOK MEDIA (BCB) TO IMPROVE THE BEGINNING READING SKILLS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract This study aims to develop learning media in the form of Drawing Story Books (BCB) that effectively improve the reading skills of the third-grade students of SD Negeri 1 Kuning, Southeast Aceh. The research method used is research and development with the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) model. The study subjects were students of SD Negeri 1 Kuning, Southeast Aceh, consisting of 20 students. Instruments used in this study were validity instruments, practical instruments, and efectivity instruments. The developed media was validated by experts and tested on students for a validation score indicating that the media was feasible. The study's results showed students' enthusiasm for the BCB media, which improved their reading skills. Student evaluation resulted in a response score indicating that this media is appropriate and interesting. This study also revealed that using bright colors, attractive illustrations, and Canva-based designs effectively attracted students' attention and increased reading motivation. The media developed meets Indonesian language learning standards and can be used as a learning aid inside and outside the classroom.

Digital Literacy In Early Children Through Pictured Story Books

Literacy is a basic skill that children need to have. This study aims to describe the introduction of literacy using digital picture storybooks for early childhood. The problems in this study show that most parents do not supervise the use of children's gadgets. Children are given gadgets so that children look calm and do not cry. So the direction given is still very minimal, especially in the use of digital storybook media. This study uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. The data collection techniques and tools used were observation, interviews, and documentation. Researchers used the Miles and Huberman data analysis technique. After the data was collected, the data was simplified to obtain the necessary information. Furthermore, the data were presented and organized to draw a conclusion. The book used is a digital picture storybook entitled “Tingkah Pola si Kera” which consists of text images and audio that work together to provide a complete picture of the story. The results of the analysis show that through the use of digital storybooks can provide an interesting introduction to children's digital literacy.

The Adaptation Of Sabahattin Ali’s Stories “The Unrescuable Masterpiece” And “The Swallows” For B2 Language Proficiency Level

Language, which is a qualified tool for the socialization of people, is a phenomenon that has continued its existence from past to present. Societies developing with language have come a long way in transferring their linguistic productions over time. In this context, written texts created for cultural transmission and literary pleasure in Turkish are one of the elements that best describe human communication with language. In this context, literary texts created over time with the accumulation of societies have an important place in both mother tongue teaching and mother tongue teaching in the learning and teaching process. In the process of teaching Turkish as a foreign language to individuals who have come together from different cultures in the process of teaching Turkish as a foreign language, the use of literary texts emerging from the accumulation of society in the process will make learning permanent. The research aims to contribute to the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language within the scope of simplified texts. In the process, the main idea was preserved by preserving the meaning structure given by the text. The related stories were taken from the 33rd edition of Sabahattin Ali's Yapı Kredi Publications published in 2018. In this respect, the main purpose is to enable the student to understand the text better. Bulding on this perspective, the research is based on the adaptation of Sabahattin Ali's stories titled The Unrescuable Masterpiece and The Swallows, which are included in the story book called The Mill, taking into account the B2 level criteria of the Common European Framework of Reference. The related stories were adapted and restructured through text simplification. In the process, the simplification process was reorganized by paying attention to the textuality criteria and using the appropriate methods of text preservation, text modification, text summarization and deletion. This study, which includes document analysis and descriptive analysis methods from qualitative research methods, the stories discussed in this study are aimed to arouse an aesthetic pleasure in the reader and improve reading comprehension skills in the teaching process, and within the framework of the adapted text, various examples of practical activities to be used in the course are included.

Materialidade das novas mídias incorporadas no modernismo literário: Laranja-da-China de Antônio de Alcântara Machado

This article proposes to analyze how the new means of communication and transport at the beginning of the 20th century figure (and shape) the lively and intermedial prose of an important Portuguese-speaking modernist author, Antônio de Alcântara Machado (1901-1935). We are interested in verifying the role of materiality (Süssekind, 1987; Gumbrecht, 1985 and 1997) of these new media as a constitutive element of the articulations of meaning in Machado's prose and above all their effects on the transformation of the mentality, daily life and behavior of the characters of Laranja-da-China (1928), one of his books of short stories that is still not widely explored by critics and which has as its setting the environment of São Paulo in the 1920s, in full and accelerated pace of urban and cultural modernization.

THE UTILIZATION OF ANIMATED VIDEO MEDIA IN ARABIC LANGUAGE LEARNING AT AL MAAHIRA INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL MALANG

The advancement of technology in the current era has led most students to prefer watching educational stories on smartphones rather than reading stories in books. This presents a challenge for educators to create technology-based educational videos. The lack of understanding of technology among educators makes learning media less engaging, which can decrease student motivation. This research aims to assist educators in utilizing animated video media to create enjoyable learning experiences for students. The study employs a descriptive qualitative approach, where the researcher seeks to describe the utilization of animated video media in Arabic language learning at Al Maahira International Islamic Boarding School Malang. Data collection techniques include interviews, observations, and documentation. The data is then reduced, compiled, sorted, presented, and concluded. The results of the study indicate that animated videos can attract students' interest, helping them focus on the material taught by the teacher and making it easier to understand the content because students tend to be interested in engaging and visual images. The use of animated videos has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages include making learning more interesting, increasing student motivation, and providing flexibility. The disadvantages include limited resources and the potential for student dependency. To maximize the use of animated videos, schools need to provide adequate facilities, offer training to teachers, and use animated videos in balance with other teaching methods.

The concepts of «geography» and «chorography» in «Marriage of philology and mercury» by Martianus Capella (Mart. Cap. De nupt. VI. 567-721): brief remarks

The proposed article discusses the features of the presentation of “geography” and “chorography” by Martianus Capella. Of the nine books of Marriages, seven are devoted to elementary secondary disciplines: grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, degree, arithmetic, astronomy and harmony. From the content of the story in the sixth book, it becomes clear that geometry is a complex and multifaceted discipline, which additionally includes geography and chorography. n a narrow sense, geometry deals with the study of figures, in a broad sense – the shape and position of the earth, thermal zones and indicating locations on a geographical map. These two disciplines complemented each other and allowed students to gain a broader understanding of the earth's surface. The educational cycle outlined by the author, to the 5th century. did not yet represent a firmly established intellectual concept and underwent significant changes over the course of two centuries. Hence, it is permissible to assume that each author, until the final design of the range of free disciplines, had the right to make changes to the list and content of subjects, including “geography” and “chorography”. Despite the obvious similarity of their content with the story of Claudius Ptolemy, the “Marriage” also indicates a strict terminological framework for each key discipline. For the first, the use of the terms terra and orbis is acceptable, for the second - orbis terrarum, provincia and finis. This circumstance allows us to see the approximate path of “geography” (in the ancient sense) from the ideas of Claudius Ptolemy, who lived during the period of the highest flowering of the Roman Empire, to late Antiquity. The ideas laid down by Marcian Capella formed the basis for the definition of “Geometry” in the developed Middle Ages.

Smile, Sara! and Other Stories: Creating Children’s Picture Books Exploring Emotional Regulation

As the emotional regulation process has already happened since childhood, it is a crucial phase to learn to manage emotions with different strategies. This paper explores emotional regulation strategies performed by children in five children’s picture book stories. The theoretical framework is derived from Emotional Regulation Theory by James Gross. Using antecedent-focused strategies such as situation modification shows better effects than a response modulation strategy such as expressive suppression has negative consequences. As a result of performing expressive suppression strategy, each child character in the stories experiences unpleasant effects such as stress, pessimism, and discomfort with the people around them. The characters then switch to a situation modification strategy by modifying aspects of their initial situation that trigger their negative emotions. All these lead to better consequences of emotional regulation such as experiencing a happier mood and lower levels of negative mood.

Youth Leaders' Emotional Intelligence Story Book Two: When will I be good enough for my parents?

This story explores the emotional journey of Abby, a young girl seeking balance between her mother’s high expectations and her own independence. Frustrated by constant criticism yet yearning for her mom's approval, Abby reflects on their relationship and discovers the power of open communication.

The Effect of storybook use in pediatric health services on children's fear and anxiety levels: A meta-analysis study.

Invasive procedures are commonly used in pediatric healthcare, and storybooks can be used as an adjunct analgesic method. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of using storybooks as a distraction technique to reduce fear and anxiety in pediatric healthcare. This study was conducted with the aim of revealing the level of effect of storybook use on children's fear and anxiety level in pediatric health services. For this meta-analysis study, the studies were obtained by searching PubMed, Web of Scıence, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Google Scholar and YÖK Thesis Center databases in April-June 2024 without any year limitation. After the reviews, 15 studies were included in the study. The data were synthesized by meta-analysis and narrative methods. In this meta-analysis, it was found that storybook use in pediatric health services was effective on children's anxiety (SMD: -4.412, 95% CI: -7.727 to -1.097; Z=-2.608, p=0.009; I2=99.890%) and fear (SMD: -1.13, 95% CI: -1.71 to -0.54; Z=-3.78, p=0.000; I2=83.065%) levels. In addition, it was determined that the characteristics of the intervention group, age group, the characteristics and content of the storybook, the duration of the intervention and the time of the intervention played a role in the effectiveness of the storybook use intervention in pediatric health services on children's anxiety and fear levels. The use of story books in children's health services reduces the level of fear and anxiety in children.

"Intellectual Lightening": A Tribute to John Harris through a Collection of Memories, Imaginary Books, Fictional Reviews, and an Interview.

"INTELLECTUAL LIGHTENING": A tribute to John Harris through a collection of memories, imaginary books, fictional reviews, and an interview. John Harris' impressive and diverse academic career is illustrated and remembered by his colleagues who each contribute with a special memory, story or fake book review, in order to thank John and to cherish the memories. A good philosopher, a kind person, a teacher, different aspects of his work are discussed.

Pemanfaatan Literasi Digital Dalam Meningkatkan Kreativitas Motorik Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus (ABK)

ABK's motor creativity is said to be good if they are in the right environment, surrounded by people who understand their special needs, both in terms of assisting, guiding and supporting no matter how small they do. Collaboration of digital learning and conventional creativity is one of the strategies developed by HSBE academically/non-academicly. The reading literacy ability of ABK is quite good in understanding writing, pictures, colors but due to verbal limitations it seems difficult to speak and not yet fluent in reading. The need for digital literacy for children with special needs in the form of visual art comics in the form of visualization of picture story books and visualization of digital fairy tales is quite influential in improving the motor skills of children with special needs. The computer science program was attended by ABK grades 2 and 3 because they were already able to operate basic computer systems. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method involving teachers, parents and children with special needs as a sample. The results of this study concluded that 2 children with special needs: 1ADHD – GAP (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and 1ASD – RRF (Autism Spectrum Disorder) have very low ratings in utilizing digital media compared to 3 other children with special needs so that they require extra assistance and learning media

An Examination of Noun And Verb Bias In Turkish Preschool Story Books

The aim of this study is to examine the frequency of nouns and verbs in preschool storybooks designed for children acquiring Turkish, to determine the dominance of word types. For this research, four different storybooks from a publishing house were randomly selected. These selected books were analyzed in detail using corpus content analysis to determine the frequency of word types. During the analysis process, all words in the storybooks were categorized, and the frequencies of these categories were calculated. The frequency analyses revealed that nouns were used more frequently than verbs in each of the four books. When these four books are evaluated collectively, it becomes evident that the usage of nouns is significantly higher than that of verbs. The results are consistent with the literature suggesting that nouns are acquired earlier and more frequently than verbs in the language acquisition process of children. Furthermore, these findings indicate that nouns play a more significant role in language development, as reflected in the design of educational materials used in the preschool period. These results provide important data to consider in the fields of language development and pedagogical material design, offering valuable insights into the role of word types in children's language learning processes.

Bringing Traditional Medicine into the Health Humanities Classroom with Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s “Remedies”

In this essay, we recommend Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story “Remedies” (2019) for inclusion on health humanities syllabi based on our experiences teaching it at two undergraduate institutions. The story is drawn from Sabrina & Corina, Fajardo-Anstine’s award-winning book of short stories about Chicana and Indigenous women in Colorado, but is available for free online, making it highly accessible for students. “Remedies” is narrated by Clarisa, who turns to her great-grandmother Estrella for the traditional knowledge that ultimately cures her family’s recurrent outbreaks of lice. As a health narrative that centers familial and cultural healing practices, “Remedies” offers a much needed counterpart to the biomedical frameworks that tend to dominate health humanities syllabi and curricula. At the same time that it illuminates the physical and emotional efficacy of such practices, “Remedies” rejects a binary that pits them against biomedicine, offering a complex portrait of how various members of a family integrate traditional and biomedical approaches to health. We discuss how themes related to familial and cultural healing practices are developed in the story and introduce our approach to initiating productive conversations about the relationship between traditional healing and biomedicine in our classrooms.

The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games

The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games

PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA BUKU CERITA BERGAMBAR BERBASIS AUGMENTED REALITY MATERI FABEL SISWA KELAS 2

The research aims to develop an augmented reality-based comic book environment to improve literacy in elementary school students. This research used the ADDIE development model and was conducted on 22 grade 2 students at SDN Sumberingin 04. Data collection techniques used include observation, questionnaires and documentation. Data analysis includes analysis of validity, effectiveness and media attractiveness. The validation results illustrate that the augmented reality-based picture storybook media is very valid, with a percentage of 89.5% for media expert validation, 91% for material expert validation, and 90% for language expert validation. In the effectiveness test, the teacher's response showed a percentage of 100%, which means it was very effective. Meanwhile, the attractiveness test through student responses also showed a percentage of 100%, which is included in the very attractive category. The reliability of student responses was calculated using SPSS with a Cronbach alpha value of 0.773. Based on the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that the augmented reality-based picture story book media developed is suitable for use as a learning medium to increase the desire for reading literacy in elementary school students. It is hoped that this media development will be able to provide positive assistance in efforts to improve the quality of learning and students' literacy skills.