A Sample Text Comprehension Activity Prepared According To Textuality For 2nd Step 6th Grade Primary School Turkish (Mother Tongue) Courses To Gain The Skill Of Reading

A Sample Text Comprehension Activity Prepared According To Textuality For 2nd Step 6th Grade Primary School Turkish (Mother Tongue) Courses To Gain The Skill Of Reading

Yıldız, Cemal
Şimşek, Nil Didem

Reading is a field that feeds all skills. Students gain experience in each reading process and they acquire the basic reading and writing skills at school. Then it becomes a habit of reading. Students improve their reading skills when they do an activity in the coursebooks. They develop the capacity of understanding and increase the reading effort as well. The purpose of this study; is to gain reading skills to the students with the help of text comprehension activity, prepared according to the textuality. The most important target of Turkish Lesson Curriculum which has been prepared according to the constructivist approach, is to provide students read the text correctly and provide them understand it completely. In this study, any kind of activity which aims understanding of the text according to the textuality, will be submitted in 6th grade Turkish lessons. Those kinds of activities provide students perceive and interpret easily. Text comprehension activities that we do in our study, consist of three parts; pre-text studying (summary, visual summary, monitoring, result deduction, planning), targeted-text studying (reading monitoring/strategy) and final-text studying (genre analysis). So that, thought to these activities, the object of the author, the genre of the text, language and expression feature, development of intellectual and emotional and word frame may be easily recognized.

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2012-05-04

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