From Read to Create: Enhancing Story Summarization Skills with RADEC

This study aims to improve the ability of fifth-grade elementary school students to summarize the content of stories through the implementation of the read, answer, discuss, explain, and create (RADEC) learning model. The method used is classroom action research (CAR) conducted in two cycles at an elementary school in Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency, South Kalimantan. The participants of this study consisted of fifth-grade students who faced difficulties in summarizing story content in Indonesian language lessons. The instruments used in this research include observation sheets to assess the implementation of learning and a story summarization test to measure student learning outcomes. The results of the study indicate a significant improvement in both the learning process and the students’ ability to summarize story content, as reflected in test results and observations at each cycle. This improvement suggests that the RADEC model can be effectively used to enhance students’ understanding and skills in summarizing story content. The study concluded after the achievement of learning completeness in the second cycle, demonstrating the success of applying the RADEC learning model in improving students’ ability to summarize story content.