Abstract

The article considers some methodological techniques aimed at the influence onto and the formation of the preschoolers and primary school students' emotional sphere. A personality's emotional sphere is the various forms of experience: emotions, feelings, moods, and empathy. In the variety of means of influence onto the emotional sphere development of a preschooler and the primary school students fiction plays an important role. Works of fiction help a child to know his or her inner world better, inspire the self-perfection, provoke aesthetic feelings and emotions, form empathy in the process of reading. Fairy-tales are the most favourite children's genre. Fairy-tales are being listened to by the children at their preschool age and they are being read by them while studying at primary school. Working at the text, it is necessary to draw children's attention to the genre peculiarities of the literary work. Children should learn the main genre characteristics of a folklore tale, a literary tale, a legend, retelling, and a short-story. That's why such questions will be appropriate here: – Is this literary work a fairy-tale, a legend, a short-story or a poem? Prove your point of view. – What (fairy) set expressions are used to begin fairy-tales? Recollect and enumerate them. Questions for the heroes' characteristics: – Name the words from the literary work which characterize the heroes. – Which words from the text helped you to understand feelings and the mood of the characters? – What characters did you like more? – Whom do you sympathize with? – Whom would you help with pleasure? – Whom would you give your heart to? Why? Ukrainian folk tales, legends, retelling, literary tales, and short stories are a wonderful basis and rich material for the children's emotional sphere development. They teach children to enjoy the nature, to love it, to admire its beauty and to protect it, to care for the near and dear, to associate and make friends, to sympathize with and empathize people, to understand their feelings.

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