Development of the reader’s culture at Lodz’s nursery schools

Abstract

In the article an attempt was made to the evaluation of the state of the reader’s culture in Lodz’s nursery schools and the possibilities for its developing, through discussing following components of the reader’s culture: characteristics of contacts of kindergarten pupils with the book and applied methods and forms of improving reader’s passions in municipal pre-school institutions, activities of nursery schools in the preparation for the learning to read and the learning to read conducted at pre-school institutions as part of program classes, the content rating of nursery school libraries and applied selection criteria of the children’s fiction and equipping nursery school rooms and book’s corners for developing the reading amongst children aged 3–6 years. There was also an attempt made to examine attitudes of favorable teachers arousing an children’s interests in the book as well as pointing of directions of the cooperation of pre-school institutions supporting promoting the reading with the social-cultural environment and the family house of the child. In research a method of the diagnostic survey and a method of the action research was used. The scope of research included chosen Lodz municipal institutions pre-school, representing individual administrative districts of Lodz.