The purpose of the study is to analyze theoretically and simulate the formation of management skills in junior schoolchildren. The authors classified junior schoolchildren's management skills, defined psychological and pedagogical principles of their formation. Empirically obtained results of questionnaires for teachers and parents (n=550) determined how well they understood the importance and relevance of forming management skills at primary school. In order to examine the organization of the pedagogical process at schools the pedagogical documents were analyzed. Obtained data were used to develop indices and criteria of formed management skills, as well as a structural and functional scheme of forming management skills in junior schoolchildren. The suggested model of the content of learning-activity management preserves the substantial distinctness of management actions and operations and creates possibilities for comprehending the structure of learning-activity management to apply knowledge thereof consciously when organizing the educational process in elementary schools.