Natalya Ignatova

High-quality teaching in the modern education system requires an integrated approach to educating and bringing up a comprehensively developed personality, taking into account the psychophysiological characteristics of students. The purpose of the study is to identify the pedagogical conditions for the development of attention of first-graders at the lessons of literary reading in the process of using language didactic games. Educational work based on the development of the attention of first graders belongs to the field of subject and meta-subject results of educational program learning and it is relevant for primary school. In our study, we used the methods of theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the problems of attention development in first graders, empirical methods (conversation, observation) to identify the current level of attention development in first graders, pedagogical experiment, methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the study results. The study resulted in a complex of differentiated language didactic games worked out by the authors, qualitative and quantitative changes in the level of first graders’ attention development. The systematic use of language didactic games had a positive impact on the development of the attention of first graders and on the quality of learning various topics of literary lessons.