Abstract

The study is devoted to the analysis of prepared and implemented activities by students of the bachelor part-time study program Preschool Teacher Training, with a focus on the selected field of language and literacy development of preschool children. The intention is to reveal how preservice and in-service teachers are prepared for the current requirements of preschool education to support the children prerequisites for literacy skills development. The research is based on a qualitative content analysis of the instructional programs for student´s practice in kindergarten. The goal is to fi nd out how students think about didactic strategies for language and literacy development and how their activities refl ect readiness for this fi eld. The analysis includes 480 instructional programs (240 implemented in a kindergarten) from 40 participants. The analysis points to differences in readiness regarding the age appropriateness and temporal organization of activities in the designs, surprisingly also for children vocabulary or phonemic awareness development. Self-evaluation of the participants with different quality of refl ection partially forms their pedagogical content knowledge, while there are no noticeable differences between teachers already working in practice and students without experience in kindergarten. Overall, the students show less orientation in the instructional goals and learning possibilities for narrative skills development, text comprehension, and pragmatic language devices.