1st and 2nd grade students reading levels

In the light of society’s course and changes, valuable human life and man’s participation in social activities are nowadays unthinkable without reading skills. Seeming to be elementary and natural the skill is not inborn. As a matter of fact, reading is a complex process having its own development and difficulties. An urgent problem is reading that students spend more and more time playing computer games, searching the Internet, communicating on mobile phones, so less time is allotted us learning reading and improving the reading skills. That’s why it was important for us to make clear how 1st grade students learn reading and what is the quality of the 2nd grade students’ reading skills. While pursuing this aim, I have made an analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature about the process of reading and did an investigation in town and village schools.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta