Reading as an Informational and Educational Activity in Education

Abstract

The article examines reading as one of the most important types of communicative and cognitive activity of students. This activity is aimed at extracting information from written text. Reading performs various functions: it serves for practical mastery of a foreign language, is a means of studying language and culture, a means of information and educational activities, and a means of self-education. As you know, reading contributes to the development of other types of communicative activities. It is reading that provides the greatest opportunities for the education and comprehensive development of children through the means of a foreign language.