The Creation of Multimedia Teaching Materials with Using Basic Word List to Develop Reading Skills in Early Childhood

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to create multimedia teaching materials for early childhood; and 2) to compare the reading skill for early childhood before and after using multimedia with basic word list. The researcher has designed the learning media to promote reading skill of early childhood in various fields. The sample was 12 schools with thirty-eight 3^rd grades in early childhood students under Suphan Buri Primary Educational Service Area Office 3. The research tools were a multimedia visual media to memorize basic word list affecting reading skill in early childhood, activity plans, and reading assessment form.  The data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation, percentage, and content analysis.

The results showed that the creation of multimedia teaching materials consisted of the following steps: (1) For content analysis, it was set by the learning objectives, and teaching activities; (2) In design stage, it took the basic word list and media images with multimedia in Power Point program and animation, choosing a background, and adding a picture. The basic word list has been added by animation, music, and sound; (3) For evaluation of multimedia teaching materials: the content and educational technology experts have investigated the quality. The results of the research were as follows: 1) In terms of the evaluation of teaching media quality, the results have found that the quality was at a high level (x̄ =4.47 and S.D. = 0.24.) The media quality was at a high level; and 2) For the comparision of basic word list using visual multimedia with a t-test. It has found that the post-learning score using multimedia teaching media for memorization was 8.68, higher than the pre-learning score of 4.32. The reading skill was 86.80%, 80% passing the specified criteria. It was a statistical significance at the .05 level.