This research aims to determine the significant effect of implementing the VCT learning model on the speaking skills of class IV students at SD Inpres Talakauwe, West Bajeng District, Gowa Regency. The type of research used in this research is pre-experimental and is a quantitative type of research. The sample in this study was 25 students. Data collection techniques were carried out using learning results tests and observation sheets. Data analysis of research results was obtained from descriptive statistical data analysis and inferential data analysis. The research results showed that speaking skills before implementing the VCT (Value Clarification Technique) learning model in the pretest had an average score of 64. Meanwhile, in the posttest it had improved with an average score of 83.2. The results of the t-test analysis regarding the influence of the VCT (Value Clarification Technique) learning model on the learning outcomes of student participants show that the significance value obtained is good, namely the influence of the VCT (Value Clarification Technique) learning model on speaking skills (Sig = 0.001) is smaller than the value The alpha set is 0.05 (0.001 < 0.05). Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that Ho is rejected and H1 is accepted, which states that there is an influence of the use of the VCT (Value Clarification Technique) learning model on the speaking skills of class IV students at SD Inpres Talakauwe, West Bajeng District, Gowa Regency.

The main problem in this study is how the writing errors in the use of punctuation marks, commas, hyphens, exclamation marks and quotation marks in narrative compositions in Class IV of Manjalling State Elementary School and And aims to find out how the errors in the use of punctuation in students' narrative compositions totaling 12 student narrative compositions. This type of research is descriptive qualitative research. The data and data sources in this study are narrative essays of grade IV students of Manjalling Elementary School, Gowa Regency. The instruments used in this study were observation, interviews, and data from students' narrative essays. The results of the study showed that the results of the essays analyzed using descriptive analysis were still found to contain errors in the use of punctuation. This can be seen in the percentage of errors in the use of period punctuation 35.13%, comma punctuation 48.65%, exclamation punctuation 2.70%, hyphen 8.10%, and quotation marks 5.40%. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that there are still errors in writing regarding the use of punctuation in students' narrative essays, especially in the use of periods and commas.

This study aims to analyze students' difficulties in writing short stories in the Indonesian language class IV at Ulumul Islam Bakri Wahid Elementary School. The type of research is descriptive qualitative and the data analysis techniques used are data collection, data reduction, data display and conlusion drawing. And the data source data in this study were all 4th graders of Ulumul Islam Bakri Wahid Elementary School, Makassar City. The data techniques in this study were the distribution of test sheets, student and teacher interviews and documentation in the research conducted at Ulumul Islam Bakri Wahid Elementary School.The results of this study indicate that the ability level of students in writing short stories is still low. Based on the results of writing short stories that have been made by students and the results of interviews conducted by teachers and students with researchers, it shows that the difficulties experienced by students are difficulties in expressing ideas, limited vocabulary and difficulty determining the structure of short stories so that students have difficulty in making a story. short.