Messenger of Allah said: "The duty of a father when to have children, there were three cases (1) gives a good name, (2) teach reading and writing, (3) if the marriage has grown."
In this article tries to explore linkages with the second case the read-write. Ironic fact precisely the importance of early literacy emerged from western thinkers. As that in fact we have forgotten something very urgent in the religion of Islam itself suggests. The Qur'an came down with the beginning word Iqra 'which means reading, God ordered the Prophet to read at the time, in the context of the universal mass is perhaps the interpretation that God commanded all Muslims to read on.
Loss of consciousness may result from our habit of frequent hand in children in the process of mere fate. In fact a form of degeneration which we donated to civilization. Therefore, basic education by the Prophet is called (to teach reading and writing), more or less in nearly all corners of the world is a matter of urgent nature (Hujjati: 2003). Declaration of Rights of the Child in Geneva in 1924 At the second and fifth chapters Rights of the Child, explicitly stated, "For every child must be provided the means for the natural growth of the material, spiritual, and moral. Children need and exercise, and avoid a variety of exploits.
Simply put, literacy means the ability to read and write or literacy. In the present context, literacy has a very broad sense. Literacy can mean technological literacy, politics, critical thinking, and social. Kirsch and Jungeblut in the book Literacy: Profile of America's Young Adult Contemporary defines literacy as the ability of a person in using the written or printed information to develop knowledge that brings benefits
for the community. Furthermore, a new can be said literate if he can understand something because reading and doing things based on his reading comprehension (Bukhari, 2008).
Obviously literate environment present when society has cultivated read. And placing the needs of reading at an equal position with the daily food requirements. Children are not actually born from the womb intact, but the culture and customs of the community also gave birth to a child character. Because various forms of treatment and the environment surrounding the child's habits will be very memorable and meaningful in the process of growth. Includes literacy activities and materials around the child's artifact is not seen as vacuum of communication. Will certainly have implications in child growth and development. At the time of introduction and early child conduct a symbol of literacy events are captured by the senses, on further steps that the child will pour a variety of symbols into a more practical form.
The National Early Literacy Panel (NCFL, 2005) conducted a synthesis of research to find out about the environment and the characteristics of the ability to contribute to the children, from birth to age five years, then see the results related to reading achievement. so later reading achievement included: the relationship to the environment to read, hear; expressive vocabulary; about the concept of letters, alphabet, write the name; phonological awareness, phonological short-term memory, naming letters, numbers, objects, colors; receive vocabulary, verbal IQ ; visual memory and visual perception. The result is that the environment contributes positively to the ability of the language.
But unfortunately, we still often hear the phrase tilted about early literacy activities, with the pretext that children should not be taught to read and write. Distortions of this understanding, preceded by a short comprehension is considered an early literacy learning to read and write at a practical level and are not comprehensive in understanding of early literacy. Early literacy activities are actually more on the approach which enhance the reading culture for adults and children engage in literacy practices with material artifacts. Habituation so that it will be imitated by the children as something meaningful activities and did not stutter literacy. Beside it was a lot of results from various research that has reinforced the importance of early literacy.
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