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Developing children’s communication abilities is an important challenge pre-school education is facing with. It has been the subject of numerous studies, with an emphasis on the role that games play in developing communication. However, preschool teachers underestimate the importance of dramatization games in the development of a child’s communication skills and personality. The results of our experimental studies showed that dramatization games create favorable conditions for developing children’s socio-perceptive, emotional and interactive aspect of communication. It was found that communicative abilities in dramatization games should be formed step by step: from the ability to see a situation of interaction and to understand a partner’s state to master ways to express one’s attitude to him or her, and, finally, to the ability to cooperate. Development of communication skills is also fostered by using stories that deal with issues of interpersonal interactions, and by employing active learning methods.