THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORD-TO-TEXT COMPETENCE OF JUNIOR SCHOOL CHILDREN BY MEANS OF SYNTAX-RELATED EXERCISES AT THE LESSONS OF UKRAINIAN

The article gives an outline of theoretical aspects regarding the nature of “word-to-text competence” in methodological studies of the Ukrainian language; the practical elements of formation of skills constituting the word-to-text competence are analyzed by the use of syntactic facilities; the research by home and modern scholars is approved in relation to the given issue; the importance of application of syntactic concepts is grounded as one of linguistic means of competence development; the methods for primary school childeren to work with short coherent expressions are described; basic syntactic units that assist in development of word-to-text skills at the lessons of Ukrainian are illustrated; exercises of practical character are developed.