Basics of forming the functional literacy of schoolchildren

Abstract

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.