If we want children to sensitize for reading and understanding a literary text, we need them to initiate the process of becoming emotionally opened for literature and since I, in my thesis, focused on children aged five and six who do not read independently yet, I presented the pre-writing period, speech development and the impact of the environment, both domestic and professional, represented by the kindergarten and primary school, as well as the principles of a successful oral and listening communication . I presented the methods of a school interpretation of a literary text, a fantastic tale in Slovenia by Tone Pavček, a poet and translator. As the literary and art story run parallel, I also presented the illustrators of the selected work.
Empirical part is divided into two parts. In the first part I presented the opinion of graduated kindergarten teachers and primary school teachers. With the help of a pre- structured interview, my thesis shows how teachers work in the last age group and their views of the children's receptive ability in the first grade of primary school.
In the second part of the empirical work, I presented a set of teaching materials, based on the methods by Metka Kordigel Aberšek, with which the educator can help children gain a fuller experience of youth narrative poems.
Tasks display elements of the development of children's receptive ability at the concrete level. The demonstration of the use of the methods, that help children with the perception of numerous text components and their interconnections, was conducted with children who are starting school in the 2016/17 school year or are going to be six years old by the end of 2016. This action research was carried out with the help of Tone Pavček’s literary work Juri Muri in Africa. Each execution was followed by analysis.
For a fortnight, we were using the selected themes to express our creativity and open and expand the horizons of our imagination. The parents also took this journey, because their children daily shared their adventures with them through Tone Pavček’s Juri Muri in Africa and illustrations by Damijan Stepančič, who also visited us and presented us with a whole new world of imagination.
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