Özet:

The aim of this study is to identify the needs of children from the 4-6-year-old Syrian immigrants living in Turkey for early Turkish literature skills. In the determination of the work group, the 40 Syrian immigrant children registered in the Turkish Red Gaziantep Social Center have been given information about the research, selected those who want to participate in the research. Data collection and data analysis processes are carried out using qualitative and quantitative research methods. The data was collected by researchers using an instrument to evaluate the early literary skills of immigrant children and an observation form to be used during the application. The evaluation tool includes the dimensions of expressive language skills, receiver language skills, voice cognitive awareness, writing awareness, matching images, pre-writing skills. In the analysis phase of the quantitative data obtained from the evaluation tool and the quality data based on the observation notes of the practitioners, the quantitative and quality analysis methods have been linked to each other and comprehensive analysis has been carried out. The findings show that children’s level of Turkish language awareness is generally below 70%. According to this, a curriculum to be developed should include expressive language skills, recipient language skills, voice cognitive awareness, writing awareness, matching images, pre-writing skills.