ntroduction. The presence of the requi-?ements of modern society to the secondary school graduate determines the modernization of education, in particular its content. One of the current principles of studying the Ukrainian language today is a text-centric approach. The essence of text-centrism is to use texts as illustrative material in the study of language topics. In the texts selection, teachers prefer artistic samples. But diale-?t texts - records of living folk speech can also be used as a learning resource. The purpose of the article is to prove the expediency of using dialect texts as an educational resource in Ukrainian language lessons; to publish some examples of living folk speech, recorded by the author in East Polesian dialects, which can be used in the teaching and education of high school students. The following methods were used in the study: analysis, synthesis, abstraction, analogy, generalization, as well as the method of continuous sampling. The main results of the study. Complex tasks, made on a text basis, allow developing not only language and speech knowledge and skills of students, but also the ability to formulate their own statements, as well as to satisfy the cognitive interests of students. Dialect texts contain rich linguistic material, so their use allows you to master the language at all levels of the language system. Acquaintance with samples of folk speeches promotes the prestige of proficiency in the Ukrainian language. Through dialect texts, students get acquainted with the world picture of Ukrainians, their customs, traditions, spiritual and material culture, folk life. All this forms the ethnic consciousness of high school students. Originality. The article raises the issue of the use of dialect texts in the study of the Ukrainian language for the first time and publishes samples of dialect discourse recorded in East Polesian dialects. Conclusions and author’s specific suggestions. The use of dialect texts contributes to the development of language and speech competence of students, as well as general cultural and national education of high school students. The didactic and information potential of dialect texts is very large, so they can be used in the study of other subjects (Ukrainian literature, history of Ukraine, biology, geography, etc.).