With the awareness that pupils are different from each other, one begins to think about adapting teachers' work according to each pupil's skills and abilities. It is a legal requirement to provide gifted pupils with the right conditions for education by adapting learning content, methods and forms of work and by giving them the opportunity to take part in extra lessons and other forms of individual and group work. In the theoretical part, we discussed terminological definitions, legislation of gifted pupils, procedures for identifying the gifted, characteristics of (literary) gifted pupils, the influence of parents, teachers and schools on the development of giftedness and we described educational work with literary gifted pupils in compulsory and supplementary curricula of primary schools. We wanted to research the teachers' views on the identification of potentially gifted pupils on literary fields, how they evaluate their work and competence with the gifted in the first educational period. We have found that most teachers find it useful to identify potentially literary gifted pupils as early as in first educational period, that they feel competent enough to work with the gifted, despite the fact that most of them do not attend additional classes in this field. More than half of teachers think that parents, not teachers, are most important in developing literary talent. Most teachers differentiate literature lessons for the gifted. In the area of didactic active methods, teachers use role-play most often and project-based learning least often. Potentially gifted pupils in the first educational period most often participate in Cankar Award competition, extra lessons and extracurricular activities and least often in Saturday schools. Teachers do not ask the gifted enough challenging questions, as most of the questions are at difficulty level 5 (evaluation), but not at level 6 (synthesis), where pupils are expected to connect the parts into a new whole in a unique, different and original way, to think critically, to look for hidden information, to compare information from several texts, to compare and connect (opposing) points of view and to think creatively.
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