Students in the Vitebsk region will have the opportunity to read 20th-century primers

September 5, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA /. In the current academic year, schoolchildren of the Vitebsk region will have the opportunity to "read primers of the 20th century" - an interactive exhibition with this title has been organized by the regional institute for the development of education and the museum of education of the Vitebsk region with the participation of the historical and local lore museum of the Vitebsk district. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the author of the idea and organizer of the exhibition, director of the museum of education Tamara Marchik. The exhibition is held in a playful form, only remotely resembling a lesson, directly in the school classroom. Museum workers come to the children with exhibits - and these are 32 primers published between 1900 and 2000. The exhibition is designed for schoolchildren from the 2nd grade and teachers, and not only for those who teach the youngest students to read and write. This is the main idea of the exhibition - to introduce children to primers that were published in different periods of the past 20th century. Holding a primer that your grandparents learned from is very interesting and exciting, Tamara Marchik is sure. The exhibition features unique editions. For example, children have the opportunity to read a teaching psalter, published in 1910, which was used to teach children to read in a parish school. There is a primer for adults, published in the 50s-60s of the last century. One of the primers lacks words, and the student is asked to create stories about letters on their own with the help of printed pictures. However, Tamara Marchik considers all exhibits to be unique in their own way; they provide an opportunity to trace how the appearance and content of the first textbook for each of us have changed over time. During the excursion-lesson, it is possible to simultaneously conduct a reading technique check and assess the children's ability to think figuratively, along with a historical excursion. A competition for guessing riddles contained in primers from different times is also held in an engaging way, and it is not always possible for 21st-century students to find answers to riddles from the past. In the new academic year, the organizers of the interactive exhibition intend to give all schools in the region the opportunity to read primers from the past. In the future, it is planned to hold an exhibition "We Solve Arithmetic", during which mathematical tasks from textbooks of the 50s of the 20th century will be performed, including with the help of special children's abacuses with beads, Tamara Marchik noted. -0-