Improving Literacy Skills in Description Texts Using the Discovery Learning Learning Model in Adventist 1 Middle School Students in Manado

Abstract

Literacy is a series of a person's thinking abilities both in understanding a text and outside the text when it comes to work, family and society. This literacy will be experienced in everyday life, both in learning, working and interacting in other social worlds. This research aims to measure the increase in literacy skills in the descriptive text of class VIII students at Adventist Middle School1 Manado uses a discovery/disclosure based learning model or Discovery Learning (PDL). This research uses quantitative descriptive methods and the research subjects are students in class VIII-2 of SMP Advent 1 Manado for the 2023-2024 academic year, totaling 25 students. The techniques used in this research to collect data are observations, interviews and written tests. Meanwhile, data analysis in this research uses a percentage formula. The results of the research show that students have an overall score of 84.44%, which is considered capable of literacy. Using a discovery/discovery-based learning model can improve students' thinking skills to be more active and creative and increase students' self-confidence in the learning process. This also helps students prepare themselves to take the Computer-Based National Assessment exam.