The article considers linguistic bases of primary school children’s development of speech activity. When forming speech activity, speech has a special role in the formation of the text. It was shown that speech activity requires is not making separate sentences, but making several sentences, as well as grammatical and semantic character and speech in the form of the whole text. Therefore, the final result of the formation of speech activity of primary school students should be a work, a story, that is, a text. The article analyzes the works of scientists on the role of text in language relations. In primary classes, the basic concepts of the text are presented, as well as scientific features are shown. It was also noted that through reading and discussing texts, you can learn to speak and write correctly. On their basis, ways of developing the speech of primary school students through text are provided.