The purpose of this study is to compare methods and working materials that a number of Swedish and Turkish educators are using in order to teach reading skills in first grade. It also aims to examine how educators stimulate students’ interest in reading. The study is based on four interviews with teachers from both Sweden and Turkey, where they all teach in first grade. Differences and similarities in the answers from the interviews are compiled in a table. The results of the study shows that the educators uses several different methods in order to teach reading skills. We can also see in this study is that the methods that the educators choose to work with is not essential for the result. It is the competence of the educators that is the most important object to teach reading skills. The results also shows that the process of learning to read in Sweden and Turkey do not differ significantly from each other. It was found that almost all educators uses reading books, books letter, reading for home works and reading aloud in reading lesson. The study also shows that the biggest difference between Turkey and Sweden in way of teaching reading skills is the curricula for the reading skills.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka läs- och skrivinlärningen i förskoleklass och årskurs 1. Studien undersöker när elevers läs- och skrivinlärning påbörjas och hur lång tid denna inlärning tar. Dessutom undersöker studien vilka metoder som lärarna använder sig av i sin undervisning för att utveckla elevers läs- och skrivförmåga. En enkät skickades ut för att samla data om hur verksamma lärare i förskoleklass och årskurs 1 arbetar med läs- och skrivinlärningen med hjälp av Läsning på talets grund, Whole language, Tragetonmetoden och Wittingmetoden. Lärarna fick även nämna övriga metoder de använde sig av i sin undervisning. De flesta lärare börjar med läs- och skrivinlärningen i sin undervisning direkt då de får sina elever. Denna läs- och skrivinlärning tar ungefär ett halvår för en elev utan större läs- och skrivsvårigheter. Allra vanligast är det att en lärare använder sig av en blandning av läs- och skrivinlärningsmetoder i sin undervisning. / The aim of this study is to investigate how educators in preschool-class and year 1 in primary school teach their pupils how to read and write, and what methods teachers use to aid this process. The aim is also to see what the connection is between the time it takes for the pupils to learn how to read and write and their development towards literacy. A questionnaire was sent out to collect data of how teachers in preschool-class and year 1 work with literacy using LTG, Whole language, the Wittingmethod and the Tragetonmethod. The teachers also got the opportunity to mention other methods that they used in their education. Most of the teachers immediately start teaching the pupils how to read and write. Learning how to read and write takes approximately half a year for a pupil without any reading and/or writing difficulties. Teachers commonly use a variety of methods in their education.