Öz Concerning the reading-writing education, it is observed that children who have gained reading-writing experience in an environment of substantial reading and writing materials in the preschool period, who are from families with a reading-writing tradition, who listen to stories and fairy tales in the family environment, who use illustrated painting books and who perform pretend reading activities with the help of predictable illustrated books are more successful. This period, which can be conceptualized as "kuluçka dönemi (emergent literacy)" in the Turkish reading-writing education, is beginning to take the place of the "reading readiness" period