The system of teaching literacy in a kindergarten is based on the sound analytical-synthetic method, since it allows, firstly, to teach in full accordance with the peculiarities of the sound system of our language, with its phonetic laws and the system of letter designations adopted in the language; secondly, the modern method is based on the achievements of Soviet psychology in the field of studying the age characteristics of children, as well as in the field of studying the processes of reading and writing in students of Soviet schoolchildren; thirdly, the modern method, along with literacy, carries out the tasks of ideological education and comprehensive development of children