Abstract:

The Czech Republic regularly participates in the international research PIRLS, which is focused on assessing the level of pupils in the field of reading literacy in the 4th grade of primary school. Until now, Czech pupils have always shown rather average results, but a slightly increasing tendency of the achieved results has been recorded in the last period. In this context, we were interested in whether didactic materials, in the form of pedagogical and didactic texts - reading books, can also be behind the pupils 'improvements in the field of reading literacy, and whether they are designed to support pupils' development of reading literacy. The research is focused on the analysis of the most frequently used reading books in the Czech Republic. We obtained the titles of the readers by a pre-research. An analysis of each individual reader will be performed and the results will be compared. It is a qualitative research, but in a quantitative sense, as it compares the frequencies of individual tasks developing comprehension procedures defined in the PIRLS survey, such as working with text, intra-subject and inter-subject relationships, and also compares the number of examples and their genre focus.

Keywords:

Qualitative research, quantitative research method, reading literacy, reading-book, primary school, Czech Republic.