Development of Educational Toy: Jumping Alphabet

DOI

10.2991/icece-16.2017.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading, early childhood, educational toy, letters

Abstract

Today, children begin to learn to read at an early age with the assumption that the earlier a child learns to read, they will develop better. On the other hand, many people thought that learning to read before school age, which is 7 years old in Indonesia, it will hamper the development of the child. Regardless of polemics about when a child should be taught to read, in Indonesia the teaching of reading has begun to be given in kindergartens. Kindergarten (TK) is the level of non-formal education that teaches children at early age about the wide variety of basic skills, including letters and numbers, with the assumption that the acquisition of letters and figures are basic skills that must be understood by younger children before they enter the next education level. The development of this toys aims to help teachers and parents as a media for letters and words recognition in early childhood, as a basic for learning to read. Based on observations conducted by researchers at several kindergartens in the city of Malang, letters and words recognition given to their students using the media such as flash cards. This method is quite effective and fun with a variety of images on a flash card that can attract children to learn to read. However, learning by using flash card is not stimulating the motor development of children, especially gross motor skills. Gross motor development is actually an important aspect of development in early childhood. Thus, researchers are trying to design an educational toy that combines the method of flash cards with physical activities that can be used to stimulate gross motor skills of young children. The toy is called Jumping Alphabet, consisting of a pictorial carpet pads consist of 26 letters written in rectangle areas and an assortment of flash cards containing pictures and words. Kids are asked to spell out the letters on the flash card by jumping into the rectangle area containing the corresponding letter. It is expected therefore, in addition to the ability of recognition of letters and words that children develop, it can also stimulate the development of gross motor abilities

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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