EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT WORK MONOLOGUE SPEECH OF OLDER CHILDREN PRESCHOOL AGE IN THE PROCESS OF STORYTELLING

the article discusses the features of the development of monological speech of older preschool children. The results of experimental work to identify the current level of development of monological speech in older preschool children are shown. The criteria (composition of the utterance, content, grammatical correctness of sentence construction, a variety of ways of communication between sentences, a variety of lexical means, sound design of the utterance), indicators and levels of development of coherent speech of older preschool children (high, medium, low) are determined, diagnostic tools are selected and adapted. The results of the work at the ascertaining stage of the study are presented. Keywords: monologue speech, diagnostics, criteria, indicators, levels of development of monologue speech, storytelling, older preschool children.