Character Education Through School Literacy Program in Elementary School

This study aimed to explore the character education through the school literacy program in Elementary School. This research is motivated by the importance of character education, one of them was school literacy program in elementary school. This research was a descriptive research with qualitative approach. Research subjects were principals, teachers, school literacy teams, and students at Muhammadiyah Sapen Elementary School in Yogyakarta. Data collection techniques used in this study were observation, interview, and documentation. Technique of examination of data validity used triangulation. The analysis technique used inductive analysis technique, that is analysis which depart from data and boils down to general conclusions. The steps of data analysis include: data reduction, unitization and categorization, display data,andconclusions.TheresultsshowedthatliteracyactivitiesatSDMuhammadiyah Sapen Yogyakarta had been implemented long before the government launched the school literacy program. Literacy activities at the school are implemented by maximizing collaboration between teachers and school librarians. Along with the school literacy movement program from the government, the school fix the literacy activities undertaken. School literacy movement activities conducted in 3 stages of habituation, development, and learning. In school literacy movement there are values of character that are grown the responsibility, discipline, appreciate achievement, confidence, creative, reading, and communicative.