Infographics in Social Studies Lessons as a Tool for Developing Reading Literacy

The relevance of the research topic stems from the profound crisis in reading in Russian society. The purpose of this study is to analyze infographics as a tool for developing reading literacy in social studies lessons, develop infographics on some topics of the 10th–11th grade social studies course, and present techniques for working with them. The research focuses on teaching social studies, exploring innovative techniques that utilize infographics as a case study. The modern world is a world of texts, and they surround a person everywhere. A person needs not only to be able to read, but also to be able to critically comprehend and apply the information obtained from the text in practice. In this regard, the development of reading literacy plays an important role in the formation of citizens capable of analysis and critical thinking—this is one of the most urgent tasks of a modern school. The research employed a theoretical analysis of scientific publications, enabling us to examine existing approaches to defining the concept of “reader’s literacy”, its content, and the methods of its formation among students. In the process of teaching, a pedagogical experiment was carried out, which confirmed the effectiveness of the development of reading literacy among students using various types of texts and innovative tasks. This study presents the author’s infographics and some techniques for working with them, as well as an analysis of scientific papers on the problems of the formation of reading literacy, and the clip thinking of modern schoolchildren. The article discusses the advantages of infographics as a tool for developing reader literacy in social studies lessons. The practical significance of this research lies in the fact that those developments that were prepared in the process of conducting research can be used at school in social studies lessons in grades 10-11, as educational tools, and the conclusions that were drawn as a result of the work done can be useful not only for social studies teachers, but also for teachers of other disciplines, as they can contribute to the expansion of the tools they use in their lessons in the process of forming reading literacy.

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