THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF LOGICAL THINKING AND CONNECTED SPEECH IN TEACHING CHILDREN OF OLDER PRE-SCHOOL AGE TO COMPILE STORIES-REFLECTIONS

Abstract

The article highlights the issue of the relationship between logical thinking and connected speech in the process of teaching older preschool children to compose stories-reflections. Based on the analysis of psychological literature, it was found that logical thinking and connected speech are considered by scientists as two interrelated processes. Scientists emphasize a certain dependence between the level of a child's speech development and his logical thinking: if a preschooler has a developed ability to think, logically explain, prove, reach conclusions, then this indicates, on the one hand, the level of speech development, and on the other, the level of logical thinking. The results of psychological research were taken into account in the analysis of statements during the identification of the levels of formation of the skills of older preschool children to compose stories-reflections. In the process of experimental learning, the formation of children's ability to distinguish essential qualities, similarities, differences, and to establish cause-and-effect relationships was essential. During the entire experimental training, techniques such as classification, grouping, systematization, selection of main features in new and known phenomena to children, connection of mental actions with knowledge, ideas and elementary concepts, rules that needed to be mastered were used. The author has established successive stages of formation of the skills of older preschool children to compose a story-reflection. Among them is the following: the rate of development of the ability of older preschool children to compose a story-reflection depends on the general level of the child's thinking and speech development. We see the prospect of further research in the development of experimental methods of teaching preschoolers other types of stories (explanation, proof, reasoning, instruction).