It is no secret that in recent decades, more precisely, after the collapse of the Union and the fundamental restructuring of not only state systems in each former Soviet republic, but also the educational system, the introduction of tuition fees, the level of teaching and learning, as well as prestige, has fallen in the most serious way. schools, secondary and higher educational institutions. The relations of our citizens with the book became especially depressing. From the most reading country in the world, we are gradually becoming the wildest and most illiterate. An amazing paradox arises: modern teenagers expertly talk about the pros and cons of the latest models of mobile phones, they can assemble a tricked-out PC system out of spare parts with almost closed eyes, but they don’t really know who Alexey Tolstoy is (and others Leo Nikolaevich!), They did not read Onegin or Dead Souls, they have a very vague idea of the contents of War and Peace and confuse the Patriotic War of the 12th year with the Great Patriotic War.
The role of extracurricular reading in the life of primary school students
Acquaintance with the book in
primary school children occurs in different ways. Kids learn the basics of reading even in the preparatory group of the kindergarten, they teach someone else to do it at home. As a result, a first-grade student is sufficiently prepared to communicate not only with a textbook (a book for reading), but also for extracurricular reading.
What will give the child extracurricular reading? First of all, it will help to form an interested book lover out of him. Develop reading skills. To teach you how to use books on your own, to extract the necessary information from them and to obtain the knowledge embedded in them. Thus, extracurricular reading from the first stages of school life should help the self-development of a small person, the transformation of a growing personality from an object of life and circumstances into an active subject of activity. We must not forget that, first of all, it is the book that makes the souls work, forming from the next representative of the biological species “homo sapiens”.
Independently picking up a book comes to mind not every first-grader. Therefore, for extracurricular reading, children should be well motivated by the teacher, on the one hand, and their family, relatives, on the other. The main goal of motivation is the development of cognitive interest in a student. In this regard, the teacher is obliged to work closely with the family of the child, so that through joint efforts he will firmly but unobtrusively guide him, gradually accustoming him to independence.
Extracurricular reading can not be unsystematic, left to chance. To him, as to any kind of intellectual activity, certain criteria are attached.
Criterias of choice
- Selected works should be appropriate for the age and level of development of the child.
- The content of the works should be presented in an entertaining way and be provided with vivid, high-quality illustrations.
- In an extra-curricular reading of grade 1, the teacher should include the so-called "toy books" (we must not forget that the beginning of study at first-graders is based on a game basis).
- The material recommended by the teacher should be diverse in genres and authors: riddles, tales, poems about nature and the motherland, stories about animals and people, about their native land. First-graders should understand that the world of books is rich, and that they can always find in this wealth something “the most-most” interesting for themselves.
Some recommendations
The school curriculum is serious and rich not only in the upper grades, but also in the lower grades . As a rule, her assimilation of hours is not always enough, especially with complex topics. And therefore, extracurricular reading lessons are sometimes taken under additional mathematics, writing, or another subject. To do so is to make a serious methodological blunder! Indeed, it is in extracurricular lessons that children expand their horizons, going beyond the scope of the program. They not only need to be carried out - they should be taught to keep readers' diaries, draw up feedback cards, and even draw illustrations for the most striking episodes. Thus, students will be educated sensitive, attentive, thinking attitude to the word, observation, memory and true love for the book.