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The article reveals the main groups of research skills of future teachers of Ukrainian language and literature. Research skills of future teachers of Ukrainian language and literature are defined as the ability to read consciously and intelligently, analyze, interpret scientific, artistic, journalistic texts, create someone’s own specialized (scientific and educational) text by creative application of professional theoretical knowledge, practical skills and techniques of philological analysis. Major groups of research skills: information (bibliographic, lexicographic, technical), operational (intellectually-heuristic, analytical, interpretive, text and genre), communicative (actually communicative, editorial, polemic), diagnostic-prognostic (design, prognostic, diagnostic, reflexive) are selected. They were based on the characteristic types of professional research activities of the teachers. Group of information skills covers the skills to find, select, analyze, synthesize, organize information from reference and encyclopaedic, scientific-methodological literature, including electronic sources, and its use in the preparation of scientific studies and during lessons in secondary schools. Group of operational research skills includes the ability to think creatively to argue justification; analyze, allocate important, significant; install consequential connections; to interpret texts; simulate the linked text taking into account the structural-semantic, genre and compositional characteristics and principles of textual organization. Group of communicative skills constitute the ability to create professional oral and written text taking into account the structural-semantic, linguistic and stylistic features; conduct a scientific discussion; defend and justification of somebody’s own opinion.Group of diagnostic and prognostic skills includes the ability to develop projects of lessons-researches, model teaching situation in the classroom, the ability to determine effective methods, techniques and forms of work with students to predict the results. Among the prognostic abilities the ability to predict, formulate pedagogical hypotheses, use the methods of thinking experiment, design teaching activities for the implementation of the established prediction and manage the process of its implementation are allocated. For the formation of predictive skills are important: prognostic ability, pedagogical observation, pedagogical orientation of thinking, future-oriented thinking, the ability to carry out creative research.