Keyword: «average school age»

The article reports on the difficulties of children with speech pathology in mastering native language. The role of literature lessons in the development among these schoolkids ability to reproduce and independently build monologues is noted. Diagnostic materials are proposed, with the help of which Russian language teacher can evaluate the quality of descriptive stories by children of average school age with severe speech disorders. The main results of 6th grade pupils with speech pathology survey using three diagnostic tasks are presented. Specific mistakes made by children are analyzed.