The article emphasizes that speech is an important means of communication, development of thinking, self-expression of a child and his/her successful socialization.At the same time, as practice shows, preschool children have speech disorders.Thus, in middle preschool age, various speech disorders are observed that require correction.Pedagogical correction of speech is a complex process that includes special methods and techniques for the development of correct speech in children.The article defines pedagogical correction as a purposeful influence of the teacher on the correction of children's speech errors caused by violation of phonetic-orthoepic, lexical and grammatical norms of the native language through specially organized pedagogical activities.It is emphasized that the leading activity of preschool children is play, which is integrated with various activities, including communicative ones.Communicative and game activity is a two-component formation that involves solving educational speech tasks, forming communicative qualities (correctness, logic, appropriateness, expressiveness, imagery, accuracy) by means of various types of games.The article highlights the causes of children's speech disorders at the preschool stage (biological, psychological, social), principles (motivational support, complex selection of methods and techniques, visualization, situational and communicative orientation, speech activity, interconnection of the artistic word and speech), individualization and differentiation, emotional saturation of correctional and game tasks) and the content of the implementation of support for the pedagogical correction of speech of middle-aged children in communicative and game activities (interactive learning platforms, various games, exercises, situations; recommendations for parents).