Abstract
Literary texts are important tools which enable reaching the aims of Kazakh Language Teaching. Children's emotional and intellectual world is addressed to via literary works. Poems -within the literary works- have a vital role in childrens intellectual, emotional and linguistic development. In our study, the definition of national identity in poems of Magjan Jumabayev and the reflections of the social pedagogical thinking will be discussed with examples. Excluding introduction and conclusion, our study consists of four main sections. In the first chapter statement of the problem has been given and the research method has been put forth in the second chapter; the information about Jumabayev's educational works has been stated in the third chapter; in the fourth chapter the Magjan Jumabayev's poems were evaluated in terms of “content”.