THE DEVELOPMENT OF 1 st GRADE STUDENTS’ READING AND WRITING SKILL IN THAI LANGUAGE THROUGH THE 5-STEP LEARNING ACTIVITIES TOGETHER WITH GAMES

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop 1st grade students’ reading and writing skills in Thai language through the 5-Step learning activities together with games and 2) to develop 1st grade students’ learning achievement in the Thai language subject of spelling section through the 5-Step learning activities together with games in order that the students made a learning achievement of 70% or better and that at least 70% of the sample group passed the criterion.   Action Research procedures was applied for experiment. The target group consisted of 8 1st grade students in Montree Sueksa School, under the Office of Khon Kaen Primary Education Service Area 4, during the second semester of 2020 academic year.  Research instruments consisted of 3 categories of 1) 9 lesson plans on spelling section of Thai language for 1st grade students which took 18 instructional periods to complete, 2) an observation form for observing the teacher’s teaching action, an observation form for recording the students’ studying behavior, a student’s reading skill evaluation form, a student’s writing skill evaluation form, 3 sets of objective end-of-spiral quizzes consisting of 10 items to each set, and each set was conducted at the end of the first, second and third spirals, respectively, and 3) an objective learning achievement test containing 30 items on the spelling section in the Thai language.  The collected data were analyzed by means of percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation for both qualitative and quantitative data. The findings show that: 1) The students made a mean learning achievement score of 18.40 or 86.23% of the full marks on reading skill, and all the 8 students (100%) passed the prescribed criterion of 70%, 2) The students made a mean learning achievement score of 13.96 or 87.24% of the full marks on writing skill, and all the 8 students (100%) passed the prescribed criterion of 70%, 3) The students made an overall learning achievement score of 22.25 or 74.17% of the full marks on the spelling section of Thai language, and all the 8 students (100%) passed theprescribed criterion of 70%.