Reading Level System on Fairy Tale Stories for Children Using Dolch Sight Word Vocabulary with Majority Voting Algorithm

Abstract

Children need appropriate reading contents to improve their imagination and power of thought. Fairy tales become one of reading contents that are good for children growth, because it can arise children imagination. However, there is no reading content categorization for Indonesian fairy tale stories. Therefore, in this research, a Reading Level System was proposed to rank reading contents for Indonesian children. Adopting Dolch Sight Word Vocabulary, it enabled to build text clustering using the occurrences of empirical probability of words for each Dolch Sight Word Vocabulary in a fairy tale. The values of empirical probability levels were calculated for each fairy tale and the results of calculating the highest probability value for each fairy tale using the Majority Voting Algorithm. The results found that the majority of Reading Level System using Dolch Sight Word Vocabulary were level 3 and level 4, where at these levels the words component of the Dolch Sight words were larger than the rest two levels.