The article describes the importance and effectiveness of teaching literature. We are talking
about the period of formation of the teaching methodology. The main thing in the stories of A.
Kekilbayev explores the issues of artistic search, picturesqueness, narration, National cognition.
Focusing on the thematic system of the stories, the artistic representation is described through the
analysis of the text. The author summarizes the new directions of search in the writer's work, reflects
the structure, artistic and aesthetic nature of his works on historical and modern themes. The author's
position is described from a national point of view. Today we are talking about the formation of
national values in the framework of teaching students the stories of A. Kekilbayev.
Key words: Literary work, teaching literature, A. Kekilbayev, author, writer, novel, narrative,
ethnography