Keyword: «functional literacy»

This article offers tasks for the development of functional literacy among students of grades 5–7 on the topic «Atomic energy». The tasks are aimed at developing functional literacy in five aspects – reading, mathematical, natural science, global and creative literacy. In the course of completing the tasks, students will not only develop the skills to use the acquired knowledge to solve life problems, but also learn a lot about ways to obtain electricity, radiation and the impact of energy enterprises on the environmental situation.

The necessity of communicative competence forming is an essential peculiarity of foreign language education. According to the Federal State Educational Standard competence forming is a means of successful integration of the student into the multicultural surrounding. The authors analyze the educational potential of the edutainment technology that is actual taking into the consideration modern tendencies of development in general.

Functional literacy is a person's ability to enter into relationships with the external environment and adapt and function in it as quickly as possible. In a modern school, the essence of functional literacy is not the knowledge itself, but the four main abilities of the student: to acquire new knowledge; to apply the knowledge gained in practice; to evaluate their knowledge-ignorance; to strive for self-development. The content of functional literacy of students consists of metasubject universal educational actions – cognitive, communicative, regulatory. Functional literacy is considered as a combination of two groups of components: integrative and subject. The subjects (language, literature, mathematics, natural science) correspond to the subjects of the school curriculum. The integrative ones include communicative, reading, informational, and social literacy, which are formed on any subject content. The game uses tasks of a subject and meta-subject nature. The goal of this game is to develop and improve the skills of all types of functional literacy. Categories: Category 1 “While the fairy tale is telling …” Category 2 “Oh, those numbers!” Category 3 "What's in the world?" Category 4 "Dreamers" Category 5 "If you don't check, you won't know!" Number of points for each answer: 10, 20, 30,40, 50.

This article includes tasks in various areas of functional literacy (reading literacy, mathematical literacy, natural science literacy, global competencies and creative thinking). All materials are united by a common theme: "Photosynthesis". The tasks are designed for students of grades 5–7, taking into account the age characteristics of children. The work is aimed at developing the indi-vidual's abilities to formulate, apply and interpret knowledge in a variety of contexts. The illustra-tions used in the work are taken from open sources on the Internet.

The proposed case of tasks is formed taking into account the age group of students (5–7 grade) and is aimed at checking the level of formation of functional literacy of students. Of course, tasks designed to assess functional literacy differ in a number of characteristics. First of all, students are offered tasks set outside the subject area, but it is assumed that they are solved with the help of subject knowledge, as well as the student's life experience. Tasks differ in their formulations: they are always problematic in nature, assume a possible multiplicity of solutions and are presented in simple, "non-academic", understandable language. At the same time, the "trick" is that in order to solve the task, the student needs to independently find the angle of the solution – to "translate" the task from an ordinary language into the language of the subject area (mathematics, geography, biology, physics, etc.). Naturally, a significant part of problematic situations are contextually close to situations from everyday life. Subsequently, the task completion diagnostics allows each student to see their individual development trajectory, evaluate their results, adjust their approach to studying subjects, and form their own skills.