DEVELOPING AN ACTIVITY KIT USING MULITSENSORY APPROACH TO PROMOTE READING AND WRITING ABILITIES OF YOUNG CHILDREN

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to develop the learning activities for early childhood children using the Multisensory Approach to promote reading and writing abilities for early childhood and to study the results of using learning activities reading and writing abilities for early childhood before and after using the learning experience model by the multisensory approach. The sample group consisted of 28 students in kindergarten 3/1, semester 2 of the academic year 2022 at Chitralada School, Bangkok. They are a study from the simple random sampling. The Activities were organized using 16 learning activity plans for eight weeks and two days a week, fifty minutes each time. The tools used in this research were the reading and writing evaluation form of early childhood abilities, the reading and writing observation form of early childhood abilities, and the learning activity for early childhood using the multisensory approach. The scores obtained from the evaluation for statistical analysis using basic statistics included mean, standard deviation, and Repeated measure MANOVA for testing and analysis variables of reading and writing abilities.

The results of the research found that:

1. The results of developing learning activities to promote reading and writing abilities for early childhood using the multisensory approach found that early childhood had enhanced ability in reading and writing at a significant statistic of .05.


2. The results of using learning activities in reading and writing abilities for early childhood before and after using the learning experience model by the multisensory approach found that early childhood had enhanced ability in reading and writing at a significant statistic of .05.