The article reveals the conceptual field of the problem of developing children’s communicative skills at preschool age. The specific features of preschool education manifest themselves in the achieved level of development of a child’s personality and his/her level of intelligence. It allows the child to master various types of activities successfully. Pre-school education lays the basis of a child’s personal culture, which helps him/her occupy a certain place in the system of human social relations. In current society in the conditions of high market requirements and growing social and economic life, high demands are placed on a person’s communicative activity. The article highlights the relevance of the topic and demonstrates the need for searching and developing innovative approaches to developing pre-schoool children’s communicative skills. The research is carried out, concerning retrospective analysis in the field of a child’s personality development and a person’s positive entry into society. The importance and significance of social and communicative development for the positive socialization of children at preschool age are proved in the paper. The article considers social and historical understanding of certain concepts of “communication”, “skills”, “communicative skills”, which for many years have been the goal of studying for many theorists and practitioners. The study of theoretical and practical aspects of the problem of developing children’s communicative skills at preschool age makes developing and training a modern child for his further positive entry into the world of society possible.

• Comparative analysis of the concepts (i.e. communication, skills) is carried out.
• Theoretical aspects of developing children’s communicative skills at preschool age are described in the paper.
• The author reveals the urgency of studying the problem of developing children’s communicative skills at preschool age.

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