Uliya I. Myasnikova

According to FSES, school graduates should not only be able to appeal to the basic facts and concepts from the courses of school subjects, but also to use this knowledge in practice. Therefore, teachers face the task of educating a functionally literate person. Nowadays, an integrated approach is widespread, which can be actively used for the development of students' reading literacy. The relevance of the research is connected with the fact that the ultimate goal of English language lessons within the school program is to acquire communicative competence, while in the implementation of the integrated approach the English language appears as a means of mastering other academic subjects (e.g. literature, history). The purpose of this publication is to examine the concepts of "reading literacy" and "integrated approach" and to identify how effective the latter is in forming a functionally literate person. The article also discusses the history and principles of the integrated approach (CLIL technologies), as well as the conditions for the development of students' reading literacy. Methods used in the research are analysis of domestic and foreign sources on the topic, monitoring student activities, questionnaire survey of students, generalization of pedagogical experience in the implementation of the integrated approach. Having analyzed the English textbook "Spotlight 10", we concluded that this textbook contains a sufficient number of tasks to implement the integrated approach. After summarizing the results of testing the integrated approach, we found that students had difficulties in working with authentic text, but the presence of unfamiliar vocabulary promoted more thoughtful and attentive reading and encouraged them to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words based on the context. In addition, the conducted questionnaire survey showed that students have a rather high cognitive interest in this type of work. Theoretical significance lies in the systematization of the essence of the key concepts of the article. The practical implication of the study lies the generalization of the experience of applying the presented methodological techniques of working with foreign-language text, which can be useful for practicing teachers and student teachers.