The study examines the specifics of communicative teaching of the Russian Language to foreign students. Based on practical experience, aspects of the use of text in the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language are determined. Attention is paid to working with textual material, since it is in the process of textual activity that students’ skills are formed not only to perceive texts, but also to produce their own. The authors of the study draw attention to the problem of selecting texts associated with the need to solve a whole range of problems: compliance with the requirements of the state standard for levels of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language, implementation of educational tasks, broadening the horizons of students, forming an understanding of the culture and history of the country of the language being studied, solving some problems sociocultural and linguistic-­cultural adaptation, increasing motivation to learn the Russian Language, etc. The necessity of including information about the region and city in which a foreign student lives and studies in the educational material is substantiated. The study analyzes certain aspects of working with texts of various thematic orientations in classes on Russian as a foreign language and regional studies. The experience of developing teaching aids for foreign students studying Russian under the guidance of a teacher or independently is presented An effective model of classroom and extracurricular work on the development of coherent speech with texts of various directions, intended for foreigners mastering the Russian Language in a volume from the elementary level to level B1, is described. Examples of pre-­test and post-­test tasks aimed at developing communication skills in areas relevant to foreign speakers are given.