Electronic libraries as a means of forming students' reading competencies

Kulikova Marina Yuryevna

Adolescents do not effectively use modern electronic resources in daily and school life, so it is necessary to improve intentional reading skills as an element of school students’ reading competency. Electronic libraries are aimed at achieving learning outcomes to form and develop school students’ reading competencies. With this in mind, specific texts and media should produce an emotional response in school students reading the material of social importance. It is important to consider conditions to form and develop reading competencies, as well as follow the structure of a lesson in order to achieve personal and metasubject outcomes. The article describes examples of developing intentional reading skills when school students use the resources of electronic libraries: Web-landia, Runivers, Russian state children’s library, International children’s digital library, and Boris Yeltsin presidential library. There is revealed the potential of the resources, which contributes to forming and developing school students’ reading competencies; it includes opportunities to be involved in situations of social importance and emotional response. In turn school teachers gain opportunities to strengthen the practice of developing intentional reading skills in school students.

Keywords:Electronic library, reading competency, social situations, intentional reading.