The article reports on the results of specific research, which focused on the selection of textbooks and workbooks for the development of elementary reading and writing of students in the 1st to 3rd grade of a primary school in the Czech Republic. The respondents (teachers of primary schools) express their opinions in the survey towards books (reading books, spelling books and writing books) according to their own selection criteria. The most important parameters of the selection include content and didactic aspects of textbooks, their scope and design, to which the textbooks, spelling books and reading books published by Nová škola and Alter correspond the most.

-The proposed research project is a follow-up of a specific research project realized in 2014 and designed to identify the publishing houses having the greatest numbers of sales of textbooks for 1 st -3 rd grades of primary schools as well as the reasons for which teachers chose the materials from a particular publishing house in the Czech Republic.The purpose of the present project is a qualitative comparison of the most widely used copybooks in the Czech Republic using comparative analysis (content, graphical design, format, adequacy of the tasks etc.). The research scheduled for the next term is going to deal with similar analyses of copybooks (including the type of script) in selected countries around the world.