PREPARATION OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS' READING COMPETENCE

The article has dealed with the problem of preparing future teachers of primary school to the formation of reading competence of junior pupils. In the process of studying the problem, it has been used methods of analysis and synthesis, comparisons, survey methods, and pedagogical observation.The author has emphasized that modern society requires the development of such qualities that are necessary for the processing of various information, adaptation to the rapidly changing realities of modern life, and this actualizes the problem of finding not only effective ways of forming the ability to read and understand, but the special attention in this context needs a question the training of future primary school teachers for the implementation of such a process, since they are starting to build a new Ukrainian school, laying the foundation for the child's personal development and formation of vital competence, including in today's dynamic information society is important reading competence.The author of the article has expanded the sence of the conception of "reading competence", defined that the formation of the reading competence of primary school students is a complex, focused stage-by-stage process of becoming a reader  of the child, the formation of a full-fledged reading skills, the development of motivation for reading, their involvement in readership as a means of cognition peace and self-knowledge; the formation of the ability to perceive, analyze, interpret, critically evaluate the texts of different genres, work with information in various formats, apply it in educational, cognitive, communicative situations, practical experience.The author has stated the general decline of the reading culture and reading literacy, the decrease of interest in literature among the students of the pedagogical department, as well as the lack of preparedness of the future teachers of primary school to the formation of reading competence among junior pupils.It has been justified that the model of the preparation of future teachers of primary school has to include both literary study with the basics of the processing of media texts as well as methodical components that in the complex are a professional tool for organizing the reading activity of the junior, and also characterizes the content of literary and methodological competence of the future teacher of primary school.