When looking into pedagogic process which is based on teaching and learning, it is not difficult to perceive that some children understand and master new material quickly while the others lag behind them. The latter need additional explanation of new things, repetition in order to absorb and memorize them. It is no secret that a teaching paradigm for a behindhand child deprives the teacher of the possibility to give more attention to a child having learning abilities. As far as I have noticed, the conception of a child having learning abilities which has recently appeared in psychological and pedagogic literature has not been explicated and given reasoned explanation yet. Everything is presented on the level of definitions and conceptions. This concept is even less used in education reality. Thus a student who is eager to learn, learns much, has a learning strategy of his/her own and always achieves good results is considered a child having learning abilities. No research which would help to solve problems how to teach children having learning abilities in primary classes has been done in Lithuania so far. The tendency to carry out researches on gifted children still prevails. But the number of students having learning abilities is not large. Thus when we speak about teaching students who have learning abilities, we speak about teaching a minority distinguished according to the level of intellectual powers. Children having learning abilities constitute a comparatively small... [to full text]