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Abstract This study’s general purpose is to create a profile of early literary skills for native children studying in the Ankara province. According to this general objective, the research included a total of 403 children from different socio-economic levels who studied in their maternities related to the Ministry of National Education.  The early literary skills of children in the study were standardized for five-year-old children and evaluated with a early literary test consisting of seven sub-tests (Language, Speaking Language, General Nomination, Functional Knowledge, Literary Knowledge, Audio Awareness and Understanding of Hearing) - Early Literary Test (EROT). All the assessments conducted in the study were conducted with individual sessions of about 40-45 minutes in a specific environment in the children’s own schools. The data obtained from the assessments were analyzed in two stages. In the first stage, the picturesque statistics of the points that children obtain from the EROT sub-tests, and in the second stage, the distribution of the points according to the sub-tests is calculated separately. In general, the findings obtained from the analyses showed that children involved in the study were not only close to the level expected in the field of word knowledge in the skills dealt with in the early literary skills, but they were not able to show the expected success in all other subregions. In the discussion section of the study, the situation in children’s early literary skills was discussed in detail on the basis of the educational program used in pre-school institutions and current educational activities.