Keyword: «works of art»

The article reveals the role of art literature in the development of speech in a child of primary school age. Classes were developed on the basis of works of art with the help of which, in our opinion, children will develop speech.

According to the requirements of the modern Federal State Educational Standard of LLC, conditions should be created at literature lessons in middle classes that ensure not only the assimilation of the subject content of the discipline by schoolchildren, but also the development of their speech, involving the improvement of the ability to create various types of monological utterances, including selective retellings. The system of test tasks presented in this article makes it possible to find out to what extent 5th grade stu-dents have mastered the ability to determine the content of selective retellings of individual episodes of literary texts: to identify the most important microthemes necessary to reveal the topic set by the teacher, and select appropriate materials. Discussion of the test results, accompanied by clarification and correction of students' answers, will allow them to develop their ability to make selective retellings of fragments of literary works.