The article is devoted to the communicative-activity approach to the study of Russian literature by schoolchildren for whom Russian is not their native language. The article presents the experience of designing lessons for the study of the tale of O. Wilde and A. Pushkin. The examples of achieving performance in terms of skills and competencies, the implementation of integrated teaching of speech activity, a combination of types of educational activities are shown. The experience of didactics is generalized from the standpoint of motivation to study a second language and literature, and the formation of effective communication skills. The fairy tale "The Nightingale and the Rose" by O. Wilde is considered as a model of learning from the standpoint of enhancing the empathy of students, adapting the fairy tale to the perception of the listener. Communication exercises are developed using cultural linguistics, the development of the student's linguistic competence, the ratio of the communicative and pragmatic sides of the lesson, using the experience of textbooks in a fixed format. The development of the recommended didactic resource takes into account the directions of the reform in the secondary school of Kazakhstan. The method of practical teaching of literature is described from the standpoint of achieving measurable results, the implementation of text-centric teaching, integrated teaching of speech activity, a combination of types of educational activities, comparative study of English and Russian literary fairy tales. It has been substantiated that the practical task of teaching, the assessment of students' answers as an element of learning, contribute to their motivation to study a second language and literature, the development of critical thinking, and a creative approach.

second language, didactics, literary tale, Pushkin, Wilde