SEJARAH INDONESIA

Prasejarah

Secara geologi, wilayah Indonesia modern (untuk kemudahan, selanjutnya disebut Nusantara) merupakan pertemuan antara tiga lempeng benua utama: Lempeng Eurasia, Lempeng Indo-Australia, dan Lempeng Pasifik (lihat artikel Geologi Indonesia). Kepulauan Indonesia seperti yang ada saat ini terbentuk pada saat melelehnya es setelah berakhirnya Zaman Es, hanya 10.000 tahun yang lalu.

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Keagungan Ayat Kursi

Resensi ini dimuat di majalah hidayah edisi 97 sept 2009

Judul buku : Rahasia Ayat Kursi
Penulis : Muhammad Alcaff
Penerbit : Zahra Pustaka, Jakarta
Cetakan : Pertama, Juni 2009
Tebal buku : 204 halaman

Ayat Kursi bukanlah ayat yang asing bagi umat Islam. Hampir semua umat Islam bisa dipastikan mengetahui dan mengenal ayat Kursi. Bahkan tak sedikit dari mereka itu kerap kali membaca ayat Kursi dan hapal di luar kepala. Maklum ayat Kursi menduduki posisi yang istimewa dan merupakan salah satu amalan yang paling agung dan mustajab dalam khazanah Islam.

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TEACHING PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS TO YOUNG CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES.

by Rollanda E. O'Connor , Joseph R. Jenkins , Norma Leicester , Timothy A. Slocum Stanovich (1991)

Called the "specification of the role of phonological processing in the earliest stages of reading acquisition . . . one of the more notable scientific success stories of the last decade" (p. 78). Phonological skills involve manipulations of the phonological constituents of spoken words in tasks such as blending, segmenting, and rhyming. Students who learn to read well can rhyme at approximately age 4 (Maclean, Bryant, & Bradley, 1988) and blend and segment orally presented words and sounds by the end of the 1st grade (Perfetti, Beck, Bell, & Hughes, 1987). But most poor readers, by the end of the 2nd grade, still cannot blend or segment words as well as normally reading younger children (Vellutino & Scanlon, 1987). These findings have excited much of the reading research community because they seem to identify specific competencies causally related to early reading success. A causal linkage would have implications not only for the scientific understanding of reading development but also for possible early educational intervention for students at risk of reading failure.

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