Organizing Activities for Reading Nursery Rhymes with Pictures to Promote The Speaking Abilities of Young Children

Abstract

Background and Aims: The activity of reading rhyming words with pictures is an activity in which teachers stimulate by using pictures to accompany the reading of rhyming words. The nature of the rhyming words is fun content and stories close to children. When the rhyming words are finished reading, teachers let the children express their thoughts by talking about the stories in the rhyming words, which is an important foundation for developing speaking skills for early childhood children. Thus, the purpose of this research wasto compare the speaking abilities of young children before and after organizing rhyming reading activities.

Methodology: The target group used in this research isan early childhood child aged 5 -6 years who is studying in Kindergarten, Year 3, Semester1, Academic Year 2023, Kantharawichai Kindergarten School. Maha Sarakham Province Under the jurisdiction of the Maha Sarakham Primary Educational Service Area Office, Area 1, a total of 25 people were obtained from a purposive selection. The tools used inthis research include an activities plan for Reading Nursery Rhymes With Pictures and measuring the speaking ability of early childhood children in 3areas: speaking vocabulary,speakingin sentences,andspeaking a story. Using a Pre-Experimental Design, the statistics used to analyze the data were:Frequency, Mean, and Standard deviation.

Results: The research results found that themean value of the speaking ability of early childhood children after organizing the activity of reading rhyming words with pictures,the speaking ability of early childhood children after organizing the activity of reading rhyming words with pictures was valuable,with a percentage of progress equal to 29.34

Conclusion: The study's findings demonstrate how planning rhyming picture reading activities can help young children develop their speaking skills. As a result, educators and researchers looking into rhyming picture reading activities that support young children's speaking abilities can use this as a reference when planning experiences for young children that support their speaking abilities.