Connection between reading and writing as basic literacy skills in the 2nd and 3rd grade of elementary school

This bachelor thesis is concerned with connections of reading and writing skills with pupils of 2nd and 3rd grades at primary school. The bachelor thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is focused on introduction of several concepts of reading and writing, the context of the silent and the loud reading, the difference between the cursive writing and the Comenia Script writing type. Several foreign reasearchers, which are presented in this thesis, are related to the connection between reading and writing. Last chapter of the theoretical part is methodological focusing on the definition of the content of curriculum of 2nd and 3rd grade at primary school. The practical part consists of a research which main focus is to describe the connection between reading and writing skills and to discover the influence of writing types and gender on the performance in reading comprehension. The reasearch sample was conprised of 271 pupils of 2nd and 3rd grades attending 9 primary schools in the Czech Republic. The pupils were assigned a test of silent reading with comprehension Velcí kamarádi or Jedeme na výlet and a writing test Pravopisný test I. The empirical part is composed of the descriptive and the analytical part. The descriptive part is focused on the description of..