THE ROLE OF READER LITERACY IN THE PROJECT WORK OF SCHOOLCHILDREN

The main purpose of this article is to show the role of reader literacy in schoolchildren’s project work. Project activity comprises many aspects and many features; it requires the formation of certain personal qualities, which is reflected in modern educational standards. Such qualities include schoolchildren’s functional literacy, which includes reader, mathematical, and natural science literacy. In project work, reader literacy is the most important of the above-mentioned personal qualities, since it enables students to find and correctly interpret data. Thus, considering that there is a lot of unverified information on the Internet currently, another vital personal quality should be the ability to have a critical eye and filter the truth from fakes, which is extremely relevant when working on a project. In order to correctly assess the information it is not enough just to read - one has to analyze it, which requires the following: to find and extract information, to integrate and interpret the data, to comprehend and assess the content and the form of the text, to use the information from the text. And all that is incorporated in reader literacy. Thus, reader literacy is one of the most important personal qualities for project activities.