The development of Czech elementary reading and writing textbooks in the 20th century

This thesis analyses the historical development of Czech elementary reading and writing textbooks from 1900 to 1999. It comes from the listing of the elementary reading and writing methods from the beginning to the present, it continues with the description and the evaluation of the most of textbooks used in the last century and tells the life stories of main authors. In the conclusions it follows the changes in the character of the textbooks and of the reading education. Key words reading, reading education, writing education, reading textbooks, first book