Preserve and develop what is natural, or the joy of learning

Abstract

The article presents the results of an implementation diagnostic study. The implementation of the educational project Effective astonishment. Learning to read triggers thinking to read began in the local environment (Lodz) in the 2018/2019 school year. The research on children's learning skills in the process of identifying sound and graphic images, as well as reading and writing was carried out in a group of five hundred 5-6-year-old children in the 2021/2022 school year. The research adopted a didactic intervention model. The researcher acted as a participant observer, while the material came from participant observation. The observation was focused around the intervention activities designed in the innovative model of initial literacy learning. The observation covered students' activities, as well as the effects of these activities. The results of the study reconstructed the importance of the initiated educational environment in the process of triggering children's learning skills in identifying sound images of the voice and graphic images of the letter, synthesis and analysis, reading technique, reading comprehension and making meaning of graphic visualization.