The article examines the formation of information skills as an integral part of the student's functional literacy in conformity with both international and Russian studies. Its conclusions are based both on the analysis of these studies (the content of tasks, the results of diagnosis) and on specific features of federal educational standards and educational and methodological publications concerned with the development of information skills. In the course of the research, the authors have revealed that the formation of information skills in students is influenced not so much by the choice of textbooks but by the teacher's work, use of techniques, means and methods of organizing the activities aimed at mastering all the skills listed in federal state educational standards in relation to data processing. The conditions influencing the achievement of the planned results in mastering the educational program related to the search and transformation of information as an integral part of the functional literacy of schoolchildren are as follows: work with continuous and non-continuous texts.

The article deals with the problem of determining the criteria for assessing the level basics of economic literacy of schoolchildren. The article examines the available pedagogical tools that allow characterizing the level of economic literacy formation, analyzes the existing formulations of this concept, and gives its own definition of the term "economic literacy". A list of necessary tools and methods for the formation of economic literacy is provided. Research result: the authors give criteria for evaluating the indicator of economic literacy formation.