Fairy-tale therapy as a means of developing communication skills of preschool children

Relevance. At the present stage of the search for new forms and methods of teaching, the development and education of children are one of the main tasks of preschool pedagogy. The relevance of the study is determined by the importance of fairy tales in the development of preschoolers' speech. Purpose. The purpose of the study is to include valuable levels of fairy tales in the communicative and cultural development of preschool children. Research objectives: to develop the ability to emotionally react to imaginary events; to strengthen a conscious approach to the rules of personal safety; to use movements of expression. Methodology. The following methods and approaches were used in the study: activity approach, personal approach, method of pedagogical research, system approach. Results. The presented results demonstrate that a systematic and scientifically based approach to conducting specially organised classes using fairy tales develops expressiveness, accuracy of speech, grammatical correctness, lexical completeness and semantic organisation, cognitive data, etc. Conclusions. Thus, the study confirms the hypothesis that a fairy tale can be an effective means of developing the speech of younger schoolchildren in educational activities, as well as another means of ensuring the attitude to the student as a person. This study has prospects for further research on the problems of the influence of fairy tales as a metaphorical text on the development of tolerance in primary school children, as well as studying the possibility of the phenomenon of negative semantic resonance. Keywords: fairy tale therapy; preschool children; pedagogical activity; psychological training; personality development