Keyword: «game modelling»

This article reveals the potential of the literary artistic genre – fairy tales in teaching a foreign language in primary school. All the positive features of reading fairy-tale texts and their direct correlation with the psychological characteristics of primary school children have been identified. The technique of dramati-zation was used as the basis for teaching speaking (dialogical speech). This method of game modeling is based on the adapted text of a fairy tale. The textbook for primary school of the series ‘English in Focus’, containing fairy tale material that meets the criteria selected by G. Ellis and J. Brewster, was taken as an example to teach junior students reading.