Developing the skill of semantic reading in the process of drawing up annotations to works of art among fourth-graders

The article deals with the problem of developing the skill of semantic reading in the fourth-graders in the process of making annotations to works of art. The need to develop the skill of semantic reading is confirmed by the requirements of the federal state educational standard of primary general education. The question of the selection of methodological techniques, exercises, forms and means aimed at developing the semantic reading skills of younger schoolchildren remains relevant. The article analyzes the research of domestic scientists and individual teachers-practitioners on the formation of semantic reading skills and on teaching younger students to make annotations in primary school. The authors found that in these studies, there is no relationship between learning to annotate and the development of semantic reading skills. The purpose of the article is to determine the conditions for the development of semantic reading skills in fourth-graders in the process of writing annotations to works of art. To achieve this goal, a pedagogical study was conducted. As a result of the research, a step-by-step program for teaching children to make annotations to read works and a workbook “Learning to make annotations” were developed and experimentally tested. The theoretical significance of the study is to expand the known ideas about the development of the semantic reading skill of primary school students in the process of purposeful teaching them to compose annotations to works of art.