Abstract: the article discusses the issues of instilling reader interest in the book in the lessons of literary and extracurricular reading, reading with the family. Passive, active, and target degrees of interest in the book are highlighted. The types of activities of teachers and students in an unconventional lesson-seminar are considered, which provides for their in-depth training, develops the child’s ability to speak in public, learns to analyze the work being studied, independently obtain the necessary information, and in an integrated lesson that switches children to various types of cognitive activities, as a result which they get tired less and their interest in studying the proposed material increases. A literary tournament is considered as one of the interesting directions in the development of children’s interest in reading, which is based on the recognition of literary works by certain passages, guessing the names of literary heroes or recognizing heroes by description. The dependence of the success of the development of interest in reading in children on the creative potential of the teacher, his ability to organize active creative activity in the classroom and after school hours, to educate students in the need for reading is noted. The problem of reader disinterest is solved in the cooperation of teachers, students and their parents. Literary reading lessons, built by combining various modern methods and techniques, introducing individual developmental elements, using the latest technology, favor the development of reader activity. This ultimately affects the subsequent development and productive education of primary school students.
Keywords: literary reading, extracurricular reading, the reader’s interest, primary school student