У статті розкрито сутність поняття«соціально-комунікативна готовність дитини до навчання в школі» та його змістові компоненти; описано параметри оцінки рівнів готовності дитини до школи; виявлено складові готовності дитини до навчання в школі. Розглянуто дефініції дитячої гри як засобу соціалізації дитини. Запропоновано ігри соціально-комунікативного спрямування для роботи зі старшими дошкільниками.
The article is devoted to the problem of forming social and communicative readiness of preschool children for study at school. On the basis of the analysis of scientific psychological and pedagogical literature the essence of the concepts of «readiness of the child for study at school», «communicative readiness of the child for study at school», «social readiness of the child for study at school» and the content of their components is given. The parameters of the assessment of levels of child’s readiness for school are described (development of evident and figurative thinking, development of randomness and the organization of actions, ability to be guided by the system of conditions, tasks, overcoming the distracting influence of collateral factors, ability to be guided by instructions of the teacher, ability to listen carefully and to precisely follow these instructions). The components of general and special readiness of the child for study at school are: intellectual, personal, strong-willed and social-psychological. In the structure of social-psychological component the substructures are allocated: communicative, social and speech competence, which reveales their essence. The definition of childrens game as a means of socialization of the child is considered, its role in the formation of social and communicative readiness of preschool children for study at school is defined. Educational functions of a subject role-playing game which form a public orientation of the childrens personality - self-realization and entertaining, communicative, diagnostic, correctional and therapeutic, international-communicative, social - are defined. Didactic and creative games of social and communicative direction for work with senior preschool children are offered. It has been designated the forms of organization of teaching and educational work on preparation for study at school.