Investigation of the effects of writing and reading readiness studies on the writing preparation skills of pre-school children

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of Writing and Reading Readiness Studies on the writing preparation skills of pre-school children. Experimental method with the controlled pretest posttest model was used in the study. The study group of the research consists of 30 children who attend Mecidiye Primary School in Keçiören county of Ankara. Among those children, 15 of them were experimental, 15 of them were control group students. Reading and Writing Readiness Program was applied to the children in the experimental group for 8 weeks. The children in the control group continued MEB (2006) Pre-School Education Program for 36-72 months old children" within the same period. Control List for the Evaluation of the Writing Readiness Skills of Pre-School Children was used as the data collection tool. At the end of the research, a significant increase in the writing readiness points of both experimental and control group children was revealed. However, when the posttest results of the children of the control and experimental groups were compared, a significant variation in favor of the children in experimental group was observed.