Discussing examples of brief literacy in Indonesian is of course incomplete without knowing the meaning of literacy itself. In simple terms, literacy is a fundamental ability that must be owned by everyone, especially the younger generation in Indonesia.
In 2020, the level of reading habits in Indonesia has increased significantly compared to the past two years. According to the infographic on World Reading Habits, Indonesia can finally reach 16th place. This is indicated by the reading time of the Indonesian people, which reaches an average of 6 hours per week.
Well, this reading habit can be said as one of the literacy culture. To get to know more about literacy and short examples of literacy, let’s look at the following reviews!
Definition of Literacy
As previously stated, literacy is often understood as the ability to read and write. This ability to read is defined as the process of translating language symbols so that they can be processed into an understanding. Meanwhile, writing is the ability to express thoughts by making language symbols to form an understanding.
However, as time goes by and the times develop, the meaning of literacy becomes broader. In Indonesia itself, literacy is more popular than previous terms such as discourse proficiency, literacy, and literacy. In addition, literacy is also a movement for education activists, both informal and non-formal.
Literacy Goals
In the midst of the digitalization era as it is today, literacy has a very important role. So, here are some literacy goals that you need to know, including:
- With literacy, one’s level of understanding in drawing conclusions from the information received will be much better.
- Help people think critically and not be too quick to react.
- Help increase public knowledge through reading skills.
- Help grow and develop the value of good character in a person.
Literacy Benefits
In addition to literacy goals, there are many benefits that can be drawn from literacy activities. Some of the benefits that you can get from literacy include:
- Enrich vocabulary.
- Broaden horizons and knowledge.
- Helps critical thinking to assist in making decisions.
- Makes the brain work more optimally.
- Sharpen the ability to capture and understand information from reading.
- Sharpen writing skills and string words better.
- Train concentration and focus.
- Develop verbal skills.
- Increase sensitivity to information available on media platforms, especially digital ones.
- Increase creativity in choosing and arranging words.
9 Examples of Brief Literacy
In literacy activities, a student will usually be invited to read a book, and rewrite the contents of the reading, or answer the contents of the questions. So, here are 10 examples of short literacy, including:
1. Example of Short Literacy of the Fictional Stepping Book Published by Grasindo
Title: Stepping
Author: JS. Khairen
Number of Pages : 368.0
Publisher: sinaumedia Widiasarana Indonesia
The novel by J. S Khairen entitled Stepping has a theme about adventure in Indonesia. This novel also prioritizes heroic stories. JS Khairen’s work this time is quite different from some of his previous works. In this Stepping novel , Khairen incorporates a bit of the imagination that he instilled. This novel has 36 episodes and 5 acts.
2. Example of Short Literacy of the Storytelling Sea Fiction Book published by KPG
Title: Sea of Stories
Author : Laila S. Chudori
Publisher: sinaumedia Popular Library
Number of pages: 400 pages
This book has two important parts to its story. The first part of Laut Bercerita tells about how a student activist named Laut and his friends are making plans, moving around while on the run, until they are finally caught by a secret force. As per the title of this book, this first part uses the point of view of the main character, Laut.
Meanwhile, the second part of this book takes the point of view of the Sea Sister named Asmara. The second part represents the feelings of the victims’ families in various cases of enforced disappearances. In addition, this second part tells about how the victims’ families search for their relatives who never return.
The book Laut Bercerita was written as a form of tribute to the activists who disappeared because of being kidnapped, both those who returned and those who did not return with their families who have continued to search for answers until now.
This novel is an embodiment in the form of fiction that the Indonesian people must not forget the history that has shaped this nation. This novel also invites its readers to participate in uncovering various mysteries of this nation. Even though this novel is fiction, Laut Bercerita has succeeded in presenting to the reader that Indonesia once had a dark reign.
3. Brief Literacy of Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ, Published by GM
Title : Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ
Publisher: sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Number of pages: 256 pages
Although everyone’s financial IQ is different, everyone can improve their financial IQ by opening a better perspective. Starting from, how the concept of finance to how it works in the real world. In his book, Robert states that financial intelligence or financial IQ is something that humans need to succeed financially.
4. Short Literacy Example of Atomic Habits Published by sinaumedia
Title: Atomic Habits
Author: James Clear
Publisher: sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Number of Pages : 356
Atomic Habits: Small Changes That Give Extraordinary Results is a self-improvement category book by James Clear that is extraordinary. Small changes often seem insignificant. This is because small changes cannot bring real changes directly to human life.
If compared to a coin it certainly cannot make you rich, a positive change such as meditating for one minute or reading a page of a book every day will hardly make a detectable difference. However, this is not justified by James Clear’s thinking.
James Clear is a world-renowned expert on ‘habits’ or habits. He understands that every small improvement that occurs is like adding sand to the positive side of the scale. Small changes will produce real changes that come from the combined effect of hundreds to thousands of small decisions. He called the small changes that create such a big impact atomic habits.
James Clear is a well-known writer and speaker on the subject of ‘habit’. He explained that in essence every small change (Atomic Habit) is often taken for granted, will actually create extraordinary results in life. For him, something that is considered important in behavior change is not a single percent improvement, but thousands of improvements or a set of atomic habits that stack on top of each other to become the basic unit in an important system.
James Clear also explained that there are three levels of change, namely changes in results, changes in processes, and changes in identity. The single fastest way to change habits is not to focus on what you want to achieve, but on the type of person you want to be.
A person’s identity will emerge from the habits that are carried out every day. The main reason that habits are so important is that they change beliefs about oneself.
In addition, Clear also introduces four Rules of Behavior Change in changing human behavior, namely make it visible, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying. These four rules not only teach how to create new habits, but also provide some interesting insights into human behavior.
5. Short Literacy Example of Disney Books: Playing Amazing Activity Stickers Published by sinaumedia
Title: Disney: Play Amazing Activity Stickers
Author: Disney
Publisher: sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Number of pages: 16 Pages
The stickers we know come in a variety of shapes and colors. The stickers themselves are very liked by children. Stickers can be pasted in various places according to the wishes and imagination of the child. Playing with stickers can be an option for parents to invite their children to do fun activities, but still useful. There are many benefits of playing with stickers for children, ranging from training fine motor skills and sensory development, sharpening focus, concentration, persistence in solving problems, recognizing shapes, sharpening imagination, and many more.
Currently, there are various forms of stickers being sold, both in the form of animals, fruit, to cartoon characters that make children interested in having them. The Disney book: Play Amazing Activity Stickers is one of the books that successfully presents various stickers from cartoon characters.
This Disney book invites every child to play with classic Disney characters. Some of the Disney characters, namely Dumbo, Alice, Mowgli, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, and many more. There are 60 cool stickers that will make children’s games even more fun.
6. Short Literacy Example of the Book Calling the Wild, Published by sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Title: Call of the Wild
Author: Jack London
Publisher: sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Number of pages: 160 Pages
The Call of the Wild is an animal story, or a story about animals. The main character is a crossbreed St. Bernard grew up with a Scotch Sheepdog (Scotch Collie) named Buck. This Buck originally lived in a warm and comfortable Judge Miller house in California.
One day, however, one of Judge Miller’s nefarious employees kidnaps Buck and sells him to a dog dealer. At that time, a gold rush was underway in the Klondike area of Canada. Snowy cold area. They need sled dogs. They need a very large number of dogs. So, there are many dog kidnappings everywhere, and Buck is one of the victims.
Buck was treated very roughly and cruelly. Hunger and beatings he had to face. Not to mention the laws of the wild nature that also attacked him. Not only experiencing human cruelty, Buck also had to adapt to the cruelty and law that must be faced by fellow dogs in the wild.
However, Buck is an intelligent and adaptable dog. In a way, Buck is an alpha too. No matter how hard the job, he does it well and extraordinarily.
Honey, nothing lasts forever in Buck’s world. And on Klondike, at that time, dogs were like a commodity that could be traded easily. He passed from one possession to another.
The longer it gets worse. The last one nearly killed him. If it weren’t for Buck’s sharp instincts, and if it weren’t for John Thornton who saved him from human cruelty and stupidity. Only Thornton is the best owner of Buck, and Buck also loves Thornton very much. They have many adventures together.
However, Buck’s natural and wild instincts have long awakened since he began to live life in the wild. Primitive instincts that exist deep within Buck are calling him to enter the wilderness in totality. Only John Thornton was the one who kept him on the human side.
Unfortunately, once again, nothing lasts forever. Buck’s adventure with Thornton must end tragically due to the Yeehats attack that killed Thornton. So with this, Buck’s story on the side of humans ends, and Buck’s life in the wild begins.
7. Short Literacy Example of Home Sweet Loan Book, Published by sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Title: Home Sweet Loan
Author: Almira Bastari
Publisher: sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Number of pages: 312 Pages
The novel Home Sweet Loan was written by Almira Bastari, a young writer whose name is already popular in Indonesia. The novel Home Sweet Loan has just been published by sinaumedia Pustaka Utama in 2022.
Home Sweet Loan novel adopts the same genre as Almira’s previous work entitled “Odd Even”, namely metropop. However, this Home Sweet Loan novel will present a story that is written to be more serious.
Like Almira’s previous novels, Home Sweet Loan uses a story setting in the city of Jakarta. However, this story focuses more on the middle class by telling the struggle from their point of view.
8. Examples of Literacy Brief Books What’s on Earth? Main Pustaka sinaumedia Publishing Wind
Title: What’s on Earth? Wind
Author: Isabel Thomas & Pau Morgan
Publisher: sinaumedia Pustaka Utama
Number of pages: 64 Pages
Wind is an important part of our planet. What can we learn about wind? Explore how humans harness wind energy to explore the world. Investigate wind speed and build your own anemometer. Make wind poems and wind chimes.
Series What’s on Earth? Contains interesting science facts. Equipped with various experiments to hone creativity, this book invites children to explore the world around them in a fun way.
Come on, learn Science in a fun way with the book series What’s on Earth? This series comes with various topics, such as robots, trees, animals, and many more. With this book, you will be taken on adventures and experiments. This book is accompanied by interesting facts about science. You will not only become smarter, but also more creative by reading this book.
9. Example of Brief Literacy Why? Theory of Relativity Published by Elex Media Komputindo
Title: Why? Theory Of Relativity
Author: Yearim Dang
Publisher: Elex Media Komputindo
Number of pages: 160 Pages
why? Yearim’s Theory Of Relativity is interesting to read, and you will learn many things that you did not know before.
The following is an excerpt from this book, if there is anyone who can be called the ‘genius of the century’, it must be Albert Einstein. Because of that, in comics or movies, a genius is described as having messy hair and a thick mustache like Einstein.
This proves that Einstein received recognition as a great scientist by the whole world. But, although many know that Einstein was a famous scientist, many also do not know what he has achieved. This is because of the notion that the science of ‘Physics’ is difficult for people to understand. However, Einstein’s theory of relativity can actually be felt by anyone and has been explained in our daily lives. As long as there is even the slightest interest, we will be able to understand it easily.
This book is suitable for those of you who are looking for reading material, because reading allows you to think critically, transform knowledge and also many things in the book.
You also have many new views after reading a book, not infrequently you will find yourself in many versions. And if you’re lucky you’ll fall in love with books, and it’s a lot of fun. Reading is not only an activity to fill free time but also to seek new knowledge and knowledge. Enjoy reading and finishing everything you’re reading, including this book!
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