Abstract
The article reflects issues of assessing the digital culture and competence of primary school children. The purpose of which was to find out the possibility of using the Internet space by elementary school students. The experiments were conducted in the form of a questionnaire survey of elementary school students of the Municipal State Institution of Secondary School No 19 in Aktobe according to the methodology of G.U. Soldatova and the teams of authors «Digital competence of adolescents and parents. Results of the all-Russian Study». The authors compare the concept of «digital culture» by various domestic and foreign authors, and also analyze scientific sources devoted to the formation of digital and information culture of teachers and primary school students