The textbook-reader for 7th grade students is part of a line of textbooks created according to a unified program for grades 5-11, compiled by T. F. Kurdyumova. For each class, a textbook or textbook-reader for students and a methodological manual for teachers will be published. The program and educational books being created are aimed at educating the student as an educated and thoughtful reader, capable of understanding the artistic value of works, determining their place in the historical and literary process. In the textbook - anthology “Literature. 7th grade" reveals the genre structure of literary works, provides information about the history of the development of some genres.