Formation of Text Creation Skills in Students at Primary Level of Education

The article presents the results of a research carried out with students at primary level of education. The object of the research is the education of mother tongue. The subject is the process of formation and development of students’ skills to retell a story and text creation. Approbation of the suggested graphical models is realized through the Neurographica method. Graphical models are used in Bulgarian language and literature lessons. Students draw models of the narrative, before writing the text. As a result, they have visual support when creating the text. Analysis of the data shows various benefits of using graphical models for development of students’ communicative speech competence. The results of the study show a significant improvement of students’ writing skills. Among the skills which students improve best, are: to retell the episodes of the story in their chronological order, to build a coherent composition of the text and logical connection between the sentences, better graphical design of the text, etc.