Meningkatkan prestasi dan pengetahuan murid dalam penulisan karangan melalui penggunaan peta cerita [Improving students' performance and knowledge in essay writing through the use of story maps]

Various methods and techniques are used to improve students' performance in essay writing at primary schools in Brunei Darussalam. This study aims to identify the extent to which Story Map technique improves students’ performance and knowledge in writing a pictorial composition. Year 3 students from one of the government schools in Brunei and Muara District, Brunei Darussalam are involved in this action research study. The findings of the study were analyzed descriptively by using the mean results in the pre-test and post-test. In addition, the findings were also analyzed using content analysis. The results of the study show that this technique is able to improve student achievement and help students write well, but this technique is not suitable to be used to help students overcome the problem of building grammatical sentences and overcoming spelling problems.