Özet:

The Identified Baby Approach is an extremely powerful and effective tool used in early childhood to combat prejudices and, at the same time, discrimination, taking part in the framework of education of respect for differences. The Identity Baby Approach is an approach that allows children to express their special feelings, understand the feelings of people in front of them, respect people with different identity, gender, skin color, race, and disabilities, and also to be sensitive to issues such as equality and justice. Identified babies also support emotional literature that has dimensions such as social skills, emotional awareness, empathy, self-consciousness, self-driving and arrangement. The aim of this research is to support the emotional reading skills of children in the pre-school period through Identity Babies sessions to contribute to children’s emotional reading skills.  The study group, the University of Çanakkale Eighteen March, formed children from 48 to 72 months from families with socio-economically disadvantaged conditions, who studied in the 2018-2019 educational year at the Multi-purpose Early Childhood Education Center (CABAÇAM) in Çanakkale. The study group has 12 participants, including 7 boys and 5 girls. During the second period, the research was continued with 10 children, including 5 boys and 5 girls. The parents of the children who participated in the study, two school teachers and the researcher himself are among the participants in the study. The sampling of the research has been determined by the aim-based sampling method because it is useful in the discovery and explanation of the facts and events, and the research has been used by action research, which is one of the quality research patterns. As a data collection tool, participants’ observation, video recordings, audio recordings, research journal, children’s painting and art events, focused group conversations and chat-style conversations have been used to take the opinions of parents and teachers. The "Personal Information Form" was also used for the demographic information of the participants prepared by the researcher. The documents obtained during the application process, observation records and video records are interpreted by keeping the visual analysis of course. According to the results of the study, the Identity Baby Sessions conducted by the Identity Baby Approach contributed to the development of children’s emotional literary sub-dimensional skills as defined by Steiner (2003). The research findings have shown that thanks to the Identified Baby Sessions, emotional literature has changed and developed from the under-dimensional skills, the children know their own feelings, recognize and express their feelings, build sincere empathy, manage their feelings, eliminate emotional damage and develop emotional interaction, the Identified Baby Approach has contributed to these skills.