In the period of the widespread transition to a digital society, the intensity and quality of reading of modern schoolchildren are declining. Federal-state educational standards of primary general education are aimed at developing the reading competence of young schoolchildren in primary school teachers, developing the ability to read consciously and thoughtfully. This contradiction can be resolved using online literary reading simulators, which are a universal tool for the development of reading competence and the formation of digital literacy in junior schoolchildren. The purpose of the study is to develop online simulators for literary reading for primary schools. In the course of our research, we have developed online simulators for literary reading for primary schools and new content of primary literary education; we presented digital learning technologies in the form of online simulators in literary reading lessons; we created a unified digital platform for teaching primary school students literary reading based on author's online simulators. We have proved that the development and use of author's online simulators in the lessons of literary reading in primary school contribute to the shaping of reading skills; the ability to work with a book; the formation of skills and abilities of actual reading activity, providing perception, interpretation and evaluation of a work of art as the art of the word; the formation of digital literacy of younger schoolchildren. The results of the study can be used in the educational process in primary school, in the practice of primary school teachers, as well as of higher school teachers, teachers of additional education and subject teachers.

online simulators, digital technologies, literary reading, primary school, reading competence.