Abstract:

The aim of the study is to specify pre-school teachers’ views on reading and writing preparation studies. In order to reach this aim, interview method, a type of qualitative research, was used. The study group of the research consists of 48 – 60 months old (5years) and 61-72 months old (6 years) children and 4 pre-school teachers who are bound to kindergartens in Ankara province center. The views of the teachers are collected via semi-structured interview questions prepared by the researchers. At the end of the research, it was observed that the interviewed teachers implement concept, sound, and line exercises for the reading and writing preparation studies. It was ascertained that they found concept and writing preparation studies important for primary school; however, they stated no views about the studies related to writing awareness. It was detected that they made more use of worksheets in the concept books as a material for reading and writing preparation studies.

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