This article describes the methods of developing children’s coherent speech as an important means of supporting children’s cognitive initiative in early childhood educational institutions and the family. In the study methods of linguistic analysis of a text as an example of a coherent speech were used.
The use of these methods in the diagnosis of speech development of children and educators has shown that the existing speech development work in early childhood educational institutions is not practically aimed at building coherent speech skills: there is no coherence not only in the speech of children, but also in the speech of teachers.
The usage of structural features of the text, including interfacing, semantic structure and structure of a complex entire syntaх, have significantly increased the level of development of coherent speech of children and educators.
Research has shown that speech communication is an important means of developing a child’s cognitive abilities. After all, just as a child speaks (coherently or incoherently), so he or she thinks, organizes and directs cognitive activity.
The research proves that in the early childhood there are new tasks of communication as communication with adults is actively developing there are problems of interpretation of the content of digital resources, television and computer animation, etc. Therefore, the development of children’s cognitive abilities by means of childhood reading, music, visual, physical and mathematical culture should be based on the peculiarities of not only thinking, but also coherent speech.