Abstract:

Shared reading is an activity conducted by adults and children in one to one settings or with a small group. Shared reading supports listening, understanding and retelling abilities and contributes to phonological awareness and vocabulary knowledge of children with hearing loss. Shared reading provides rich language experience to children with hearing loss, and the quality of stories used in shared reading is important for the effectiveness. While choosing story, attention must be paid on content, age appropriateness, language structure, readability level, and physical characteristics of book. In this research it is aimed to examine preparation period of storybook series used in shared reading with children with hearing loss, and storybook series' preparation process was described in detail. The researcher, children with hearing loss, validity committee members and graphic designer are participants of this study. Valitidy committee meetings, audio and video records of meetings, meeting minutes, and process products are the data collection methods. The preparation process consists of 4 steps; determination of subjects, writing the stories, measuring the readability levels, and illustrating the stories. In this research readability levels gradually increased storybook series have been prepared. Storybook series consists of 3 levels and there are 2 stories in each level. In total 6 stories have been prepared. Consequently it is thought that paying attention to these steps in story writing process may increase the benefit from shared reading activity.

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