Teacher's Book . - M. : Education, 1996. — 131 s. In the first section of the manual, new approaches to teaching the mother tongue during the literacy period are considered. The second section of the manual is fully devoted to the methodology of conducting literacy lessons on a communicative and cognitive basis . In addition to the generally accepted lessons of reading and writing, the manual provides samples of lessons-dialogues, lessons of the game type on a literary and artistic basis, lessons of "communication" with the writer and his work, etc. On new approaches to teaching during the literacy period . Communicative orientation of the course . Course orientation . Focus on language learning as a sign system. Preparatory stage of training . The main stage of training. Generalization of the stage of training.