Keyword: «methodological tools»

The article discusses the issue of the reading literacy formation in the native (Yakut) and Russian languages. The relevance of the study is due to the importance of the successful formation of reading skills among primary school students as one of the basic educational outcomes and components of functional literacy, as well as to the lack of up-to-date data on the condition of reading activity in two languages and methods of its diagnostics at the modern stage of bilingual education development in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).The aim of the study is to describe the current state of reading activity in the Yakut and Russian languages and to work out diagnostic materials for the quality of reading literacy in bilingual children. The methodological basis of the research consists of situational, competence-based and empirical approaches, in which pedagogical observation was conducted in urban and rural schools, contextual questioning of three target groups (primary school teachers, parents of younger schoolchildren and students in grades 1-4 of Yakut schools). The results of previous research on the topic of bilingual education were reinterpreted in terms of reading skills, international methods of reading literacy measurements among primary school students and selected methodological developments were studied. As a result of the research, empirical data were obtained on the current state of reading activity of primary school students in two languages, including comparative aspects. Besides, diagnostic materials designed to identify the quality of reading literacy in their native (Yakut) and Russian languages were developed. The author came to the conclusion that diagnostic materials require prolonged experimental verification and testing in primary schools with the native language of instruction. The theoretical significance of the research lies in the concretization of the methodological and linguistic-didactic foundations of reading literacy formation among bilingual students. The practical significance is determined by the prospects for the maximum use of methodological recommendations and educational and practical materials in the educational activities by teachers at Yakut schools for the formation of reading literacy in the Sakha language among primary school students.