The aim of this course is to enable pre-school teacher candidates to explain and evaluate school readiness, and to plan and implement activities that prepare children for primary school and facilitate their transition from pre-school programs to primary school, taking into account the differences between children and each other.

Definition of school readiness and factors affecting readiness; dimensions of preparation for primary school (physical, social, emotional, cognitive, language, self-care skills), preparing activities for gaining school readiness competencies; importance of literacy preparation studies in preschool education, basic concepts, approaches to literacy, factors affecting reading achievement, development of literacy skills, early literacy, reading skills and sub-fields; Alphabet knowledge (pre-alphabet phase, logographic level, partial alphabet phase/semi-phonetic level, full alphabet phase, compound alphabet phase/pronunciation), phonological process skills (sound awareness, sound memory, sound use), verbal language skills and vocabulary development ; preparation for writing (print awareness), planning, implementation and evaluation of literacy preparation activities in accordance with the preschool education program