Online Journal of Primary and Preschool Education, 2018 (vol. 2), issue 1

Reviewed Papers

Problems of Diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder in Preschool Children with Regard to School Preparedness

Miroslava Dobrodinská

EduPort 2018, 2(1):1-6 | DOI: 10.21062/ujep/224.2018/a/2533-7106/OJPPE/2/1/1  

The level of fine-grained and gross motor activity is one of important touchstone of motor development of preschool children before the opening of school attendance. DCD (Developmental Coordination Disorder) is neurological deficiency, what could be negative influence to school maturity of children. This motor skills disorder that affects four to six percent of all school-aged children. The ratio of boys to girls varies from 2:1 to 7:1, depending on the group studied. There are two suitable diagnostic instruments with Czech standard (OTDP a MABC - 2). Motor skills disorders can be one of factor for postponement of school attendance. Although there...

Possibilities of Using the PIRLS 2016 Reader Literacy Scale in Reading with an Understanding of the Development of More Complex Reader Skills in Working with Artistic Texts in Literary Education and Reading at Elementary School

Blanka Janáčková

EduPort 2018, 2(1):7-13 | DOI: 10.21062/ujep/225.2018/a/2533-7106/OJPPE/2/1/7  

The content of the article is based on the PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) 2016 to readers' reading literacy of 4th year students when reading literary texts. It presents ideas for didactic procedures when working with elementary school pupils in classes of literary education and reading with artistic texts of children's literature. These levels in the PIRLS 2016 reading literacy scale were used to interpret a typical genre of children's literature - folk and author's fairy tales. The aim of the article is to describe the possibilities of how to work with the artistic text at individual levels of reading literacy and how to...

Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies

Marek Krška

EduPort 2018, 2(1):14-22 | DOI: 10.21062/ujep/226.2018/a/2533-7106/OJPPE/2/1/14  

Obesity remains one of the most widespread problems endangering the healthy development of the children of the 21st century. It is extremely difficult to deal with a problem that has been in existence for many years, both from a financial and time perspective. The ideal way to eliminate this disease remains in its prevention. Prevention is extremely efficient but it must be built on solid grounds of knowledge and experiences. The following article therefore summarizes how to deal with the making of these effective prevention strategies, the support they require and what should be included in them, since preventing these issues can be as complex as...

Activities for the Development of Geometric Conceptions of Pupils in Primary Education

Kitti Páleníková, Mária Bugárová

EduPort 2018, 2(1):23-32 | DOI: 10.21062/ujep/227.2018/a/2533-7106/OJPPE/2/1/23  

Geometric knowledge is clearly very important for everyone. When acquiring them in the school environment, we can integrate various tasks and activities into the classroom, which are interesting for pupils due to playful form. In this article we present proposals of activities focused on distinguishing, naming and drawing of planar and spatial shapes. We realised some of the activities with primary school pupils. We describe the results obtained by observing pupils during work and analysing their products.

The Comparision of the Science Literacy of Primary School Teachers

Jan Tirpák, Jiří Škoda

EduPort 2018, 2(1):33-35 | DOI: 10.21062/ujep/228.2018/a/2533-7106/OJPPE/2/1/33  

The paper is based on the TIMSS 2015 (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) survey, which examines the level of knowledge and skills of pupils of 4th and 8th years of compulsory schooling in mathematics and science. The aim of this paper is to reflect key aspects related to research from the point of view of teachers' educational practices from the Czech Republic and Singapore.