Keyword: «russian folk tale»

Love and kindness are eternal categories of the world. The main thing is that kindness should be active, creative, and not just in words. Heroes of the fairy tale “The Magic Ring” are not only kind, but also they have a keen sense of the Motherland, love for the family and human. Kindness is the natural quality of the characters. Hearts of the heroes reflect Evil forces with the light of Good. They stay alone with their anger. Such a finale awaits all those who try to live with evil on earth. According to the laws of a fairy tale genre, faithful friends of the heroes, a cat and a dog, stand up for them. Animals are human helpers not only in fairy tales but also in human life. At a difficult time, the dog and the cat came to help Martynka and the old man and the old woman. They stole a magic ring, also a pouch and returned them to their masters. Good always defeats evil.

The article describes a number of tasks that contribute to the activation of cognitive activity of 5th grade students in literature lessons during the development of one of the program works included in the section «Russian folk tales». Non-traditional forms of work were designed to increase the interest of schoolchildren in studying the well-known fairy tale «The Frog Princess», to create conditions for the development of analytical and communicative skills of fifth graders.