This book makes part of a teaching complex for children speaking Russian, but living abroad. This manual is to develop the reading and writing skills. It consists of forty lessons. Each lesson includes a text, comprehensive exercises, as well as those on grammar and spelling.The system of the Russian cases presents a certain difficulty for the children living abroad, therefore the book includes many exercises to master the cases. Another important grammar theme of this book is the verb and its aspects. Step by step the more difficult grammar questions are explained and trained: unaccented vocals, soft sign and the spelling of personal endings of verbs. At the end of the book there are keys. At the end of every lesson there is a task to write a summary of the text read or a few words on the given topic. These are short texts about the Russian history and culture, adapted fairy tales and verses of the modern Russian poets, interesting and funny stories and articles from children’s magazines. The texts are written by children and adult people especially for this manual.