A Study of the Impact of Teaching " Philosophy and Children" on the Growth of Reading Skill of Bilingual Primary Grade 3 Students

The present work proceeds to study the impact of the implementation of the program of philosophy for children on the growth of reading skills of bilingual primary grade 3 students - Turkaman - North Khorasan province in 1393-1394 (2014-2015). This study has been carried out in a semi experimental method with a control group before and after a test. To this end, first 103 students were selected as a sample (52 boys and 51 girls) in different stages and placed in the control group and experimental group (52 in the experimental group and 51 in the control group). In this work data were collected through the test of linguistic skills. The present research work presupposed the effectiveness of the teaching philosophy for children on the growth of reading skills of bilingual primary grade 3 students. A workshop has been held in 19 sessions (two sessions in a week) in a research work gathering and used the Piksi thoughtful story as the material of the workshop. Finally, hypothetical test and the analysis of the data indicate that implementation of the program of philosophy for children had a positive effect on the growth of reading skills of bilingual primary grade 3 students. Moreover, according to the findings of this research work, the teaching of philosophy for children had no different effects on two genders (boys and girls) in terms of promoting their reading skills.