The theoretical and practical bases of formation of communicative language skills in elementary school students have been analyzed in the article. The requirements of the new State Standard for primary education sector "Languages and Literature" іn four types of speech activity have been taken into account. The relevance of researched problem has been elucidated. The list of communicative skills, which should have the younger students has been compiled. New approaches to language development of students have been analyzed, attention has been paid to text-centric technology education. The sequence of the text on the lessons of the Ukrainian language text-centric technology training have been proposed.