Гуманитарные Ведомости Выпуск 1 (17) 2016

Гуманитарные ведомости ТГПУ им . Л . Н . Толстого № 1(17), февраль 2016 г . 106 In this case, the primer can be an effective assistant. It is possible to search answers to this questions with a child, sitting with him over the pages of his first school books. Who can carry out this task? It may be a school teacher, social worker and family parents, grandparents, elder children or other relatives. In the Russian Federation there are several sets of textbooks for elementary school. They have specific procedures for development and approval, the teacher has the right to choose one or another set of textbooks for a work with his class. We reviewed the alphabets and the primers by several authors: L. Klimanova, L. Jurova, V. Goretsky, N. Betenkova etc. In our opinion, representation of the family in the modern Russian primers, has a lot of problems. We will mention them at the end of this article. But at the beginning, let's say about the opportunities that are opening up for social work with the child. First, the primers represent a portrait of the «ideal family» as a rule, here is a picture with the caption «This is my family». Whom the child sees in this portrait? Normally, the illustration shows three generations of nuclear family: grandparents, parents and children. The child is alone often, sometimes two or three children are shown. We have not found any images of a large family in the Russian primers. The primer authors propose the tasks that can be used for individual work with the child, such as: Draw your family in the form of stars. Color this stars. Now draw around the family relatives, friends, acquaintances - as the stars. Not enough space? Take a large sheet of paper. Tell about your family. [9, p. 9] As a personal space family appears before us in the primers when its members are united in the some joint activities. More often it is a joint leisure. What types of leisure do the primers show? Games, reading, fun with pets, watching TV, a joint tea party. [5, 10, etc.] There is the interesting illustration in the textbook by V. Repkin. We can see the mother that shows and names toys to her son this is a ball, this is a doll, this is a teddy bear etc. They are playing and learning at the same time (fig. 1) [10, p. 5]