Particular importance is being paid to the development of schoolchildren's speech. Reading small passages, expressive reading, mastering the content, storytelling and written work types: dictation, narrative and essay are used to develop student's oral and written speech in mother tongue classes. In the article, in order to determine the literacy of students in schools, the test dictation, test report and test essay, together with various exercises conducted in the course of the lesson to develop oral and written speech, mature thinking, educational dictations, as well as special lessons - educational statement and essay lessons, are discussed.