preference before and during each disaster.

This study intends to examine the changes of disaster information. The 2011 flood in Thailand affected 13.6 million people and caused damage of USD 46.5 billion, while the 2013 flood in Jakarta, despite its short period, affected more than 45,000 people. Floods have been one of the most disruptive disasters these decades. The world is encountering climate change and severe natural disasters.

Improving learning in writing an official letter can be overcome by teachers by means of: (1) packing the Bahasa Indonesian material in the lesson plan/core activities/steps of learning to write an official letter that corresponds to the basic competence in 2013 curriculum, and (2) applying modeling methods in learning to write an official letter of natural disasters on 5th grade elementary school students.

This paper aims that elementary school students can write a good and correct letter in accordance with the provisions of letter forms and rules of language. Peningkatan pembelajaran menulis surat resmi dapat ditanggulangi guru kelas dengan cara: (1) mengemas materi bahasa Indonesia dalam Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran /kegiatan inti/langkah-langkah pembelajaran menulis surat resmi yang sesuai dengan kompetensi dasar Kurikulum 2013, dan (2) mengaplikasikan metode pemodelan dalam pembelajaran menulis surat resmi tentang peristiwa bencana alam pada peserta didik kelas 5 Sekolah Dasar. Tulisan ini bertujuan agar siswa Sekolah Dasar dapat menulis surat yang baik dan benar sesuai dengan ketentuan bentuk surat dan kaidah bahasa.

Cara membuat surat resmi