Natalya Byrenkova

The relevance of the study is due to changes in the requirements for the training of primary school teachers. A modern teacher should not only teach the child to learn, but also be able to solve the problems of education independently and creatively. One of the modern education problems is inadequate level of the ability to work with information among primary school students, comprehend it properly, concentrate on priorities, objectively evaluate their own and others' point of view. All these skills are included in the requirements of the federal state educational standard of primary general education. The search for ways to prepare the teacher for the development of critical thinking among junior schoolchildren puts forward the problem of forming the readiness of the future primary school teacher to use the technology of developing critical thinking through reading and writing, as this technology has in its arsenal various forms, methods and techniques that allow the teacher to be as flexible as possible in each learning situation. It should also be noted that this technology allows for training based on principles of cooperation, co-planning and comprehension. The main goal of the study is to identify the level of future primary school teachers’ readiness for using the technology of developing critical thinking through reading and writing. The leading method of this research was the analysis of the diagnostic techniques results, questionnaires and tests conducted among the graduates of «Pedagogical Education» training of «Primary Education and Informatics» specialty. The research was carried out on the basis of the determined components of readiness to use the technology of critical thinking development through reading and writing (motivational, cognitive, activity and reflexive). For each component, a set of methods and techniques was selected. The analysis of the data showed that the majority of students have a low level of the studied readiness, which indicates the urgency of further researching this problem. The theoretical significance of the article is in analyzing approaches to defining concepts of "pedagogical technology", "readiness for professional and pedagogical activity", as well as in defining the concept of "readiness to use the technology of critical thinking development through reading and writing" and determining its components. The practical importance is conditioned by the recommendations on the formation of future primary school teachers’ readiness to use the claimed technology. The article can be useful to researchers of students' readiness to use the technology of critical thinking development (graduate, post-graduate students), as well as to teachers and lecturers.