“…Upon reviewing the literature on the topic, it was observed that the majority of the studies focused on the impact of family support and home-based programs in literacy preparation (Coşkun & Deniz, 2019;Ertürk Kara, 2019;Eva, Lau & Nirmala, 201;Haktanır, 2021;Hofslundsengen, Gustafsson & Eriksen, 2018;Guo, et al, 2020;Niklas & Schneider, 2017;Özen Altınkaynak & Akman, 2016;Simmons et al, 2023;Yılmaz Bolat & Dal, 2007). Other studies accessed addressed the effects of literacy preparation on literacy skills (Çabuk, Baş & Teke, 2021), competencies of teachers/teacher candidates in literacy preparation studies (Bay & Alisinanoğlu, 2012;Erbaş, 2021;Çabuk, 2014), opinions of teachers/parents regarding preschool literacy (Akbaba Altun et al, 2014;Deretarla Gül & Bal, 2006;Dönmezler, 2016;Şenol, 2021;Özen Altınkaynak, 2019;Yılmaz Bolat, 2019;Yılmaz Bolat & Dal, 2017), effects of literacy preparation activities on various variables (Alisinanoğlu & Şimşek, 2012;Bayraktar & Temel, 2014;Dereobalı, 2016), teachers' practices regarding literacy preparation activities (Coşkun & Deniz, 2017;Erdoğan, Özen Altınkaynak & Erdoğan, 2013;Lynch, 2009), and in-service training related to early literacy skills (Dickinson & Caswell, 2007).…”