The Preliminary Analysis in Developing Creativity of Story Writing

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the students’ needs as the basic data to create learning media to assist the development of creativity of story writing. The research used descriptive qualitative method. The data of the research was gathered through observation, interview, and questionnaire. The subjects of the research were 82 students and 3 teachers of Fifth Grade in Primary School. The results of the research through observation and interview show that the creativity of story writing has not been optimally developed. The assignment of writing a story with a non-varied selection theme hamper the creativity of story writing. Moreover, students find difficulties in developing the idea of the story, almost all students only retell the story that has been presented in the text. The results also reveal that students are willing to have enjoyable and fun leaning activities. They want to have the freedom to express their imagination in story writing as well. Hence, there is a need for a media development that can build an enjoyable learning atmosphere and become a tool to develop the creativity of story writing. Students need a stimulus that can develop their imagination in story writing. Keywords—creativity, story writing, learning media