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Preschool children and the role of the media in their lives
Běťáková, Anežka ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Neumann, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of use of media and multimedia by preschool children, and their parents. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is based on the study of literature and is divided into five main chapters. In these chapters, I discuss the characteristics of the preschool child in relation to the topic. I describe the field of media and multimedia and look at how media affect preschool children and what the role of parents is in the work of preschoolers with multimedia. The last chapter, which deals with literacy, is divided into two subchapters, which address reading literacy and preliteracy and multimedia literacy. In the practical part, I implemented a questionnaire survey directed to parents and also semi-structured interviews with preschool children. Through this research investigation I aimed to find out how preschool children currently perceive the media world. I also focused on the extent to which multimedia is used by today's families compared to other media or other leisure activities and how parents approach the use of multimedia by children. A sub-objective of the practical part was also to create, put into practice and then evaluate the lessons with a children book that addresses the issue of multimedia, with using reading...
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Parents in Kindergarten
MACHOVCOVÁ, Kateřina
The bachelor thesis is intended to contribute to trying out less traditional ways of cooperation with parents in kindergarten and to facilitate the adaptation of the youngest children in kindergarten. The aim of the thesis is to prepare four meetings of class teachers, children and their parents in a kindergarten setting. The primary aim of these meetings is to strengthen the relationships between all those involved in spending active time together, to support the children's adaptation and to give parents a closer insight into the way they learn in kindergarten. The theoretical part focuses on the developmental characteristics of the child in the older toddler and younger pre- school years (from 2 to 4 years), the importance of the family for the child and the entry into kindergarten and adaptation to the kindergarten environment, the importance of the teacher's personality in the adaptation process, the importance of the kindergarten in the child's development, cooperation with parents and appropriate methods and forms of education for the youngest children, including the use of books and experiential learning. In the practical part, a programme of joint meetings is developed, which was implemented in the kindergarten and evaluated. The evaluation uses the method of observation and interview with children and parents.
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Nutritional literacy of high school students
MÁTLOVÁ, Denisa
This bachelor thesis deals with the nutritional literacy of high school students. The main goal is to map students' nutritional awareness, what knowledge do students have about racional nutrition, whether they are interested in it and where they get informations from. The theoretical part describes the period of adolescence, including nutritional recommendation for adolescence, the problematic of eating disorders, children obesity, causes of obesity, prevention and treatment. The last chapter of the theoretical part describes other eating disorders. For the research part of my work, I chose the quantitative method, for data collection I chose questionnare and the collection of three-day meal plans. 84 students participated in the research, out of which 60 were women and 24 were men aged 16-20. Questions 1-5 divided respondents by age, gender, school and field of study, by height and weight. Questions 6-18 asked students about their nutritional awareness, questions 19-29 asked about students' lifestyle. In the second part I compare the three-day meal plans of 8 respondents, including the evaluation of one sample meal plan. The meal plans were calculated in the Nutriservis Professional program and evaluated after. The research shows that students' awareness of rational nutrition is at a good level, students are interested in nutrition and they stated internet as the main source of information. Furthermore, the research showed that boys have better nutritional knowledge than girls and high school students do not have better knowledge than vocational school students.
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Working with a fairy tale book in kindergarten.
HÜTTNEROVÁ, Šárka
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the development of language skills through the use of stories made of cubes using fairy tales. The aim of the thesis is to characterize the fairy tale as a means of developing the child's personality in the area of preliteracy and language skills development in preschool children. The theoretical part deals with preliteracy and reading strategies. It characterizes the current conception of preschool education and the developmental peculiarities of the preschool child with regard to the development of language skills and reading preliteracy. In the practical part, a program based on reading continuation was designed to develop children's reading preliteracy using reading strategies. Stories were created with the children using blocks, thus developing their language skills. Observation, interview and analysis of educational materials were used during the implementation of the activities. Reading activities that promote children's interest in books and related activities proved to be appropriate. The children expanded their vocabulary, and improved their expressive skills.
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An analysis of student solutions of mathematical tasks as a preparation for posing tasks in the Concept Cartoon format.
ZELENKOVÁ, Jana
The thesis is focused on the written exam of maths of 6th grade pupils at the lower secondary school. The aim of this work is to analyze solutions of pupils as preparation for creating tasks in the Concept Cartoons. In the theoretical part of the thesis I deal with approaches to teaching maths, learning styles of pupils, their strategies in solving not only mathematical problems. Then I describe mathematical word problems, the Concept Cartoons, their origin, division and creation. In the practical part of the thesis I devote to specific works of pupils and analyze their solutions, both correct and incorrect. This part of the work serves as a preparation for the creation of completely new tasks Concept Cartoons. Everything is complemented by examples of pupils work.
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Literacy of parents of preschool children in injury prevention and parental attitude towards minor corporal punishments
PODOLÁKOVÁ, Gabriela
The bachelor thesis deals with the topic of literacy of parents of the preschool children in the prevention of injuries, the type of injuries and the most common place of injuries of the preschool children both at home by leisure activities and in nursery schools. It also deals with the attitude of parents to minor corporeal punishments and to what they actually consider to be a corporeal punishment. The theoretical part is devoted to the explanation of basic concepts in the field of children´s injuries, to defining the basic conditions for creating a safe home for children and it also includes the solution to the issue of corporal punishment. The practical part contains an evaluation of the results gained by means of anonymous questionnaires from in total six nursery schools. All data were statistically evaluated.
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Development of the reading literacy of children with mild mental disabilities
Kobesová, Alena ; Zemková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Šumníková, Pavlína (referee)
The theme of this diploma thesis is the development of literacy of pupils with mild intellectual disability. This thesis is divided into 5 parts. The key words such as literacy, reading literacy, pupil with a mild intellectual disability and schooling of pupils with mild intellectual disability, are described in the first four parts. Chapter number five is the empirical part of the thesis. The aim of this thesis is to find out the level of the reading literacy of pupils with mild intellectual disability at the school for mentally retarded children. A handbook supporting the development of the reading literacy for pupils with mild intellectual disability has been written based on this result. Methods of quantitative research have been used to obtain the final results. One of the research instruments was also a nonofficial test of reading literacy that has for its purpose to determine the level of the reading literacy of mildly mentally disabled pupils. KEYWORDS pupil, literacy, reading literacy, reading literacy test, mild intellectual disability, school for mild mentally retarded pupils
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Learning Primary Literacy of Children with Specific Language Impairment
Milanovská, Lýdia ; Klenková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Kopečný, Petr (referee)
This thesis solves deals with special pedagogical problems of primary literacy acquisition of the children with specific language impairment. The aim is to analyze the phenomena, which disrupt the process of acquiring written language forms of the pupils with this diagnosis and to record factors, which help to streamline this process. Another task is to propose the steps to help overcome the problems caused by impaired communication skills by teaching analytic-synthetic method. The theoretical part is the basis for meeting the targets. It describes specific language impairment as one of the categories of impaired communication skills and its consequences for education. Attention is given to the topic of literacy. Emphasis is particularly given on the initial reading literacy. This period is seen in the context of the speech development and the psycholinguistic concept of literacy is introduced, where the skill of phonemic awareness has a central position. At the end of the theoretical part, the methods of teaching of reading are described. The practical part presents the research study, which was carried out in several consecutive phases: initial diagnostic phase, observation of pupils in various stages of teaching of reading, implementation of methodical support measures and the final assessment of the...
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Reading comprehension of pupils in the second grade of elementary school
Kulhavá Vlachová, Lenka ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Špačková, Klára (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to assess the reading comprehension of pupils in the second grade of elementary school. This work focuses on possible existence of differences in reading comprehension of children taught using analytic-synthetic and genetic method. The content of this thesis is also a reading self-evaluation of these students. The theoretical part acquaints readers with the main topics related to the issue, with the help of available literature sources. It focuses particularly on issues of literacy, reading, reading comprehension, reading teaching methods, self-evaluation of reading, reader environment or reading diagnostics. Due to the research goals, for the practical part, quantitative methodology was used. The test battery includes two tests of reading comprehension and self-assessment questionnaire. Examination "We're going on a trip" is taken from a research project Reading comprehension- typical development and its risk. Other used methods are test "Hedgehog" and "Questionnaire reading for pupils in second year". These methods were created under the project Development of the reading literacy competencies in the inclusive education. The research sample includes 155 children attending the second grade of primary school (66 taught analytic-synthetic reading method and 89 genetic...
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Reading educational texts in primary school and activities for promoting reading
Vrňáková, Alena ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (advisor) ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (referee)
TITLE: Reading educational texts in primary school and activities for promoting reading AUTHOR: Alena Vrňáková DEPARTMENT: Czech Literature Department SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Ondřej Hausenblas ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to examine reading literacy and development of critical thinking skills during the teaching of educational texts. In this context I refer to the concept of the subject's reading literacy in relation to RVP ZV and to suitable conditions for developing one's literary ability. I also speak of the basic motivational principles of teaching, such as teacher's personality, goals and rules of active teaching. I also emphasis how one can achieve a better understanding of the given texts while reading them and provide a summary of teaching methods specificaly designed for the development of critical thinking. In practice I focused on the creation of a sufficient number of teaching materials of educational texts processed by methods of critical thinking and a model of learning EUR and on testing the efectiveness of these materials in the classroom. A part of this verification included monitoring ten pupils in their fourth year at the primary school Vrchotovy Janovice, where I work. KEYWORDS: Educational texts, reading, literacy, understanding, development of reading ability
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