The article analyzes the types of prerequisites in the formation of the professional competence of a future specialist. The theoretical and practical significance of professional components that directly affect the formation of professional competence and are its basis are differentiated. Since the indicator of the professional quality of a specialist is determined by complex actions to organize the educational, training and educational process, it is necessary to recognize the specific features of these integral components of the organization of education. As a result of this complex process, professional competence is formed.

The professional skills of any specialist are formed within the framework of knowledge, skills and abilities acquired in a certain field of knowledge. Since professionalism itself is closely related to learning outcomes, there is no doubt that the success of a particular specialist in his profession is determined by comparison with the achievements of other specialists. Distinguishing the tasks associated with the profession, through the levels of professionalism performed by different specialists, it becomes obvious who has a higher professional level.

The empirical section examines the quality of reading by schoolchildren and university students, one of the most important components of the formation of professional competencies - reading literacy. In the process of formation of motivation for learning, an analysis is made of the relationship between the educational program and organizational measures of education.

Key words: competence, professionalism, knowledge, abilities, skills, training, mastery.