Abstract
It is considered the reading literacy of high school students in the article, which can be developedthrough self-cognition classes. Currently, reading literacy is more considered in language and literaturecourses. The skills of working with text and electronic text are important for the modern student. It isevaluated in the international educational achievement assessment systems PISA, PIRLS. Since the currentgeneration of students is called the digital generation, which is dominated by the visual code ofperception, in order to form verbal and logical thinking, pedagogues began to pay more attention to thedevelopment of reading skills and understanding of the text by students.The purpose of the article is to analyze the phenomenon of functional reading literacy and actualizationthe problem of using techniques for developing functional reading literacy to identify values inworking with educational texts in self-cognition classes, offer recommendations. Reading literacy skillsare aimed at finding the meaning and application of the information obtained from the text, its understanding,and the development of students ‘ cognitive abilities. The article presents tasks to identify thevalue-semantic content of the text in self-cognition classes. Through some of the tasks, students canlearn to compose texts and convey their meaning to their classmates, their understanding of stories, andtheir vision of values. These tasks can be used during storytelling, discussion of stories, discussion of the“Teacher’s Gift”, or during creative work.Key words: reader’s literacy, values of self-cognition, value-semantic training, self-cognition classes.