Analytical work with school students during the Russian language lessons (based on L. N. Tolstoy’s stories)

The paper reveals the opportunities for developing analytical thinking in school students in the Russian language lessons. The authors recommend the algorithm for analyzing the works of Leo Tolstoy, which is easily combined with grammatical, lexical, and spelling analysis. The research discusses the implementation of the communicative approach to the integrated teaching of Russian literature and language at school as well as teaching activities arrangement for the analysis of short stories by Leo Tolstoy in Russian language and literature lessons. Dealing with Leo Tolstoy's stories, the teachers should fulfill the following task: they must discuss a work as a cultural phenomenon and provide a certain number of attitudes (tasks) that engaged all aspects of modern speech activity.