The reform of education has been shaking Russian society for more than a decade: the social, economic, political prerequisites for innovations are changing, the research ranks are replenished with new faces in the field of theory and practice of pedagogical thought. The lack of awareness of innovative risks for students and teachers, taking into account the experience of generations, is an urgent topic for scientific discussions and discussions today.Nowadays, when we are consciously entering the complex band of cognitive, cultural and communicative maturity, time to research works of K. D. Ushinsky is coming.

The article reveals the relevance of developing critical thinking skills among students of the “Technosphere safety” training direction, presents the job responsibilities of relevant professions, discusses legal documents which provide training in this area as part of the educational activity of a higher education institution, elaborates the role of the “Foreign Language” discipline in forming necessary competencies, proves the reasonableness of using fiction as means of developing critical thinking skills.

The aim of this study is to determine the representation of groups of reading skills in the Federal State Educational Standards 2010 and 2021 and Universal Codifiers for 9th grade within all academic subjects. The main research method in this work is content analysis and comparison of reading literacy skills (RL) according to PISA, the FSES 2010 and 2021 and the Universal Codifier for 9th gradе. The results of the study reflect the сorrelation between RL framework in educational standards, and also fix the need to systematize the RL skills.