Aleksandra Charikova

The article discusses the problem of reading skills development in primary school students working with informational texts. It presents the results of a study aimed at revealing the conditions of organization primary school students teaching to work with informational texts. The author checks the hypothesis that the use of sign-symbolic tools, when working with informational texts, contributes to improve texts understanding by primary school students. Examples of text tasks for 3-d grade students are given, which purpose is to develop reading literacy of primary school students.