Denysenko M. Teaching Elementary School Learners Reading Technique in English.

The thesis deals with the solution to the problem of teaching elementary school learners reading technique in English. The methodology in teaching young learners reading with the aid of pictogrammes and colour code system has been theoretically well-grounded and practically worked out. Pictogrammes and colour code system are such means of teaching, which allow providing opportunities to introduce reading from the first lessons of English. It becomes possible, because these mnemonics allow young learners to understand language abstraction. When using pictogrammes and colour code system children understand, retain and store the reading rules. Besides, with the aid of these means of teaching they can infallibly establish letter-sound and grapheme-phoneme correspondences. The pictogrammes as biomorphic representations of the letters turned into living shapes have been designed. The readable colours that may be used for coding printed symbols have been determined. The subsystem of exercises for teaching young learners reading technique in English that is grounded on the use of pictogrammes and colour code system has been introduced and confirmed during the experimental training. Methodological recommendations on how to organize and apply teaching reading technique in the primary classrooms have been developed and successfully implemented in five secondary schools of Ukraine. On the basis of the research findings two manuals for teaching young learners reading technique in English have been created.