Implementation of Storytelling in Improving Children's Listening Ability

The purpose of this study is to examine how the implementation of storytelling improves children's listening skills. This study used classroom action research. This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles, and each cycle was conducted with two meetings. The results of the study prove that storytelling activities can improve children's listening skills, namely in the aspect of mentioning the theme of the fairy tale being told, mentioning characters in the fairy tale, and retelling messages or information from the fairy tale. The increase occurred in each cycle, which was 33% in the pre-cycle, 45.83% in cycle I, and 83.33% in cycle II. In cycle I, there was an increase from the pre-cycle of 12.5%, but only one person, namely child B2, met the success indicator. So in cycle I, it had not met the success indicator and was continued in cycle II. In cycle II, there was a significant increase. This can be seen in the table, which shows a percentage of 83.33%, which has increased by 50% from the pre-cycle and 37.5% from cycle I. In cycle II, there were 10 children who met the success indicators.