LIBRARIES FOR KIDS

The news of the Ministry of Public Education on the opening of 1,220 small libraries in pre-school educational institutions has been welcomed by the country’s pedagogical community with inspiration. School teachers are convinced that the initiative will help to meet the emerging demand in books.

Here is what the literature teacher of the school No.195 in Tashkent Madina Ismailova thinks about this:

— To date, unfortunately, there are very few children in schools who are really interested in reading books. Most of them do not even hide the lack of interest and are openly indignant at the large volumes of works and the requirement to read the full version of the novel, the story or the poem. The Internet provides an opportunity to find a simpler way out of the situation: a brief summary, description of the main characters and even the hidden meaning of the work. However these are only the works indicated in the school curriculum, others are not the matter.

Communicating with my students, I often ask the question: "Why do not you read anything, except what is in the textbooks?" The answers are almost the same: "I do not have time ...". As a matter of fact, that is not the point; the problem is that there is no interest. And it alone will not crop up, if this issue is not dealt with and we do not guide the child. And the teacher’s influence is just not enough.

Of the interrogated children, only the two said that the parents advise them to read the works of those or other authors, only five recognize their parents as readers. Unfortunately, not only the children prefer to read a brief summary, but also the adults.

I believe that this problem touches not only the younger generation, but also the society as a whole. The lack of time explains many changes in our world: fast food, quick access to the information and new films. The people became impatient, and wasting their precious time for reading the books seems to them an absurd. Why spend hours, or even days, if you can learn a brief summary, the main idea and have a general view on the work in 20 minutes?

How the problem can be addressed? I think it is necessary to cultivate the love of reading with reading the modern literature in which heroes will have mobile phones, the Internet and other devices that are used in our time, and they will communicate in a language that the reader understands. We have many good authors who write on serious topics in a more understandable language for the current generation. A language is a developing phenomenon, many concepts and terms used by previous generations went out of the usage, new ones have come to replace them, and we must take this into account.

At the same time, the main thing for society is to foster a love of reading in the child via such way, and then they themselves will strive for more complex, more important, more serious. It is essential that the book does not take the last place at home in order to impart a love of reading in the child fr om early childhood by the parents. And there should be more and very different books in kindergartens. After mastering books with simple subjects, the youth will want to read also "The Master and Margarita", "Anna Karenina" and "Crime and Punishment."

A few hours were allocated for extracurricular reading in the curriculum on literature. In these lessons we discuss the works of contemporary writers, read new and interesting for children. Besides, the age and interests of children were also taken into account. Sometimes it is very difficult to find a book, because the main thing is that it should arouse the interest. And it is great that small libraries will be created in kindergartens wh ere the children would enter the wonderful and interesting world of books.

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