Inga S. Lunegova

The most important task of modern primary school is the development of personality through the formation of universal learning actions (hereinafter referred to as ULA), which are the basis of the educational process. A special group of cognitive ULA is formed by the ability to work with information. At the level of primary education, this ability is manifested in the selection of sources for obtaining information, finding and analyzing information in accordance with the educational task; recognizing reliable and unreliable information; presenting information using diagrams and tables, converting text information into a graphical model. Working with a model when studying new objects and their properties is often used in lessons on the subject "The World Around Us". Essential features and relations discovered during modeling become clearly understood and visually presented to students. The aim of this study is to examine the potential of forming ULA of the "Working with Information" group in primary school students at lessons on the subject "The World Around Us" using basic summaries. The basis for the study was one of the educational organizations of the Perm Region, the total number of participants in the pedagogical experiment was 50 students. The following methods were used in the study: theoretical and comparative analysis of sources, pedagogical experiment, methods of statistical processing of results. The authors revealed positive dynamics of developing skills to work with information in primary school students after targeted use of basic summaries in lessons. The article defines pedagogical conditions of effective use of basic summaries for developing skills to work with information. The theoretical significance and novelty of the study lies in clarification of key concepts of the study, definition of pedagogical conditions for basic summaries application in lessons on the subject «The World Around Us». The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the obtained results and conclusions confirm the effectiveness of basic summaries as a means of developing skills to work with information in primary school students; the worked-out versions of summaries and described techniques can be used in practice by primary school teachers.