STRENGTHENING CHARACTER VALUE THROUGH LEARNING TO READ BASED ON MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: Context Analysis, Principles, and Alternative Implementation Strategie

Abstract

Reading is the key to unlock students' knowledge and insight. Good reading skills in students will allow students to develop themselves to the maximum so that character strengthening occurs. Unfortunately, the reading ability of students in Indonesia when viewed from various research data is still far from expectations. Indonesia was ranked sixth from the bottom or position 74 in the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) assessment, which evaluated 600,000 15-yearold students from 79 nations. In the meantime, the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Society 5.0 eras had an impact on the phenomena of disruption in numerous spheres of life so that the younger generation's features also underwent a change, particularly what happens in the millennial generation. This literature review research provides insight into the innovation of reading learning based on multiple intelligences (MI) that: (1) urgent context is to support teachers in exploring and developing intelligence and optimally stimulating students' dominant intelligence by integrating subjects in information gathering and practicing reading and writing more effectively. proficient, (2) the fundamental idea is to encourage students to become critical and creative readers and writers by utilizing a variety of reading resources, and (3) the format is scientific learning by utilizing a number of reading strategies that have been scientifically shown to be successful. It is advised that teachers try this tactic, if necessary, keeping in mind the context and fundamental ideas