<![CDATA[This study aimed to describe the beginning reading skills of second-grade students before the use of word card game media and to examine the effect of this media on their beginning reading skills at MI An-Nabawiyah NW Gelanggang in the 2025/2026 academic year. Preliminary observation showed that some students struggled to recognize letters, read syllables, form words, and read simple sentences. This quantitative study used a cross-sectional design. The population and sample consisted of all 25 second-grade students, selected through total sampling. The researcher collected data with a Likert-scale questionnaire and documentation. The researcher then tested validity, reliability, normality, and linearity, and ran simple linear regression in IBM SPSS Statistics. The results showed that the students’ beginning reading skills were low before the media was used, and that the media was implemented well and received positive respons, with mean score of 53.84 for media use. The regression equation was Y = 1.488 + 0.914X, with R = 0.994 and R2 = 0.988. the significance value of 0.000 fell below 0.05, so the researcher rejected H0 and accepted H1. Word card game media improves the beginning reading skills of second-grade students.]]>
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