The book is intended for employees of preschool educational institutions, educators and methodologists, students of pedagogical universities and colleges, parents interested in the development of speech in preschool children. The book presents games, exercises and notes of classes on the development of all aspects of speech - sound, lexical, grammatical - in conjunction with the development of coherent monological speech. A separate section is devoted to the development of the emotional dictionary of preschoolers. A system of work on the development of figurative speech of preschool children based on familiarization with works of fine art of different genres is disclosed.