Tatyana Yashina

According to the second-generation Federal state educational standard, English language education in high schools is currently aimed at developing students' communicative competence. Interactive methods of forming communicative competence are implemented in the interactive exercises performed by students. They are gaining more and more popularity today. An interactive exercise that forms a speech situation performs a function related to stimulating speech utterance. Learning to read is one of the key types of speech activity in English lessons that students are involved in. The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze interactive methods of teaching reading in high school English lessons, as well as their comparison with traditional teaching methods. The article discusses the advantages of using interactive methods in teaching reading, analyzes current problems and barriers that prevent the widespread introduction of interactive methods into school practice. The relevance of the research is determined by the main goal of teaching English – successful communication. The leading approach to the study of the problem has become research, and the leading method of research – empirical. After analyzing modern domestic and foreign sources, we have developed a set of interactive exercises that will help students better learn the material, as well as diversify their activities in the English lesson. By analyzing the experiment conducted in 7th grades of a high school in the Moscow region, we found that the use of interactive methods of teaching reading contributes to the better assimilation of new vocabulary, and helps to relieve students' tension in the classroom, forms motivation to communicate with their peers. It was found that interactive teaching methods help to increase the interest of high school students not only in reading, but also in learning English in general. This work can be useful for students of pedagogical training areas and methodologists who deal with the problems of innovation in education, as well as for teachers of English, as it contains examples of interactive exercises that can be used in practice.