Program Studi Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar FKIP Universitas Pasundan
Abstract
Writing is a creative process that is carried out by using written language to convey information from the writer to the reader. Narrative essay is a discourse or essay that aims to tell or narrate an event or events from time to time. This ability is an important ability because it is a person's ability to understand the results of his own writing. The purpose of this study was to determine the ability to write narrative essays in class IV students, to find out the difficulties of students in developing the ability to write narrative essays in class IV students, to describe solutions to overcome difficulties in writing narrative essays in class IV students. This study used descriptive qualitative research subjects 22 students of class IV. The data collection techniques used in this study were documentation study guidelines and interview guidelines. The results of the study showed that fourth grade students had different abilities from one student to another. Based on the aspects contained in writing narrative essays, the highest student ability can be seen in the background aspect and the content of the idea. Aspects of plot, content organization, choice of words or diction and narrative text structure are sufficient aspects. While the character aspect as well as spelling and punctuation are the lowest aspects of students in writing narrative essays. Factors of student difficulty, namely the lack of motivation and understanding of students in writing narrative essays and less interesting learning. The solution that is applied to overcome the difficulties of writing narrative essays is to provide motivation about the importance of writing narrative essays and invite students to practice writing narrative essays properly and correctly and use teaching materials that have been made creatively for students to attract students' attention to be able to receive learning material well good
