Text as a didactic unit in the representation aspect about the text-forming function of modality

The article presents a text-centric approach to the formation of high school students' speech-creative skills and abilities. The analysis of the modal-semantic structure of the text is proposed as a way of developing the speech-thinking and text-generating activity of students. The author presents the programme of the semantic text structure research with the aim of the text generation understanding mechanisms. The article illustrates the method of the modal-semantic structure analysis designed to activate speech-thinking activity and form the skills of author's texts production.