Learning is a complex process which includes three stages: receiving information, memorizing and forgetting. The three-part multi-store model described by Atkinson introduces three separate components of human memory: a sensory register, a short-term store and a long-term store (Vizek Vidović et al., 2014). If the information needs to be retained in our memory for a longer period, it is eventually stored in a long-term store by using various memorization techniques and learning strategies. The occasional usage of previously mentioned strategies is required depending on the amount of time we want to retain the information in a long-term store. Mind maps are a learning strategy created and developed by Tony Buzan, a British psychologist who devoted most of his career to studying and designing techniques for easier learning and memorizing. Mind maps are originally imagined to adapt to the principles of how human brain works. It makes new connections for linking an unknown material to a familiar one, through the processes of associating and fantasizing. The implementation of this organizational tool can be found in various domains of living and working, as well as in teaching. This thesis is primarily concerned with the usage of ming maps in literature teaching. In order to achieve the aims of literature teaching in primary education, teachers are demanded to consider and explore new teaching and motivational methods. Reading skills are formally developed within the field of initial reading and writing, which is the component of Croatian language as a school subject in the first grade of primary education. Furthermore, reading skills could be expanded and improved by creating stimulative situations and pleasant experiences for or during group or individual literature interpretation, in order to establish students' reading routine. If mind map is appropriately introduced and occasionally used within other areas of Croatian language or other school subjects, most of students are not expected to encounter any problems in mastering this learning technique. Mind maps are suitable for using in any part of the literature teaching lesson, as well as in individual reading, which will be presented and elaborated in this thesis.