On language skills development and music inter subject integration models in primary school students' textbooks

The article analyses the native language and music inter subject integration in Lithuanian primary school students' textbooks. On the basis of the textbooks analyses which are in use in the first and second primary school forms in Lithuania. 3 inter subject (language and music) integration models as well as integration axes theoretical models fundamentals, their advantages and disadvantages have been pointed out in the present - day language skills development didactics context. The first model - inter subject integration of the native language and music as separate subjects which is based on the specific connection between language skills development and musical education. First and second formers' textbooks comprise the topics which are defined as 3 integration axes: sound variety, sound peculiarities and speech and musical language characteristics. The second model - inter subject integration in which are of the subjects (the native language and music) is treated as an artistic subject. In this case the native language skills development is analyzed in a wider self - expression, creativity and cultural, artistic skills development context. Artistic development subjects and the native language skills are closely related with fiction as oral artVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij