Özet:

In all cultures, the first literary texts that children encounter are the stories that take the first place. The fairy tale is anonymous popular stories that are born from the imagination of the people, often with heroes like gins, peri, giant, dragon, padişah, vesir, which are told by transmitting from mouth to mouth. Stories are kinds of literary stories read and read by children. This kind of children like to read and listen to has many functions in child education. Stories in the child include the ability to listen, read, dream, curiosity, discovery, etc. As it contributes to the development of many skills, it also helps the child acquire cultural values of the society in which he lives. Through the fairy tales, children learn the language and cultural values of the society in which they live, because they reflect the value judgments of society, the way of life. When choosing a type of literature with such important contributions to the curriculum, it is necessary to be very strictly behaved; it is necessary to choose taking into account the scientific standards. The main objective of this study is to study the nature of the stories in high school 5-8th class Turkish curriculum books based on the emotional direction analysis from the variety of content analysis. In this context, the stories in the Turkish curriculum books studied in the 2017-2018 educational year have been studied. In this study, the method of document examination from the quality research approach was used. In the analysis of the research data, the emotional direction analysis of the variety of content analysis was used. The positive, negative, mixed and mutual aspects of the messages transmitted by the phrases studied in the stories are determined. Positive expression 1, mixed 3, negative 5, and mutual is indicated with 7 numbers. The appropriateness of the stories to the child’s cognitive and mental development has been assessed by taking into account these criteria. According to the study, the cattle, the snowflower, the August Insect and the Bear, the World Travellers and the Four Sheep stories of the child's emotional, mental, psychosocial, etc. It can be said that it is in the character that will provide their developments in different directions; Alice in Wonderland-Following Birds and Tasa Birds fairy tales do not have these characteristics and will not contribute to the development of children in different directions.

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