Integration of Educational Branches in Primary School

Abstract

Abstract: The article examines the issues of integrating different educational domains into the content of language and literature lessons in primary school. The relevance of the topic is determined by its social significance, as the formation of pupils’ integrative competence involves mastering knowledge across all educational domains, developing language culture, and creating a foundation for comprehensive lifelong learning. A high level of integrated skills and abilities ensures strong and well-grounded knowledge and contributes to the holistic and harmonious development of the learner. The purpose of the article is to identify and substantiate ways of integrating various educational branches in the content of lessons of the language and literary educational branch in primary grades by topic and to experimentally confirm the feasibility of the integrated methodology. The topic of the multifaceted problem of integrating various educational branches is revealed in fundamental classical and modern scientific research. Three main criteria for the formation of integrated skills and abilities of primary school students are proposed: informative-integrative, motivational-integrative, activity-integrative. For each criterion, indicators of its manifestation are determined. Based on the identified criteria and indicators of their manifestation, the following levels of formation of integrated skills and abilities of primary school students are determined: low, satisfactory, sufficient and high. It is proven that the quality of the educational process is largely determined by the extent to which the potential opportunities for integration of various educational branches in the education and upbringing of each child, their individual characteristics, are taken into account and implemented. A third of primary school students do not have formed integrated skills and abilities. All this hinders successful educational activities and causes unstable success of children. Therefore, improving the system of integration of educational branches in primary school is currently a priority task.