Abstract:

This study investigates reading errors and behavioral faults in reading of 5-8th. grade students. This is a descriptive and relational survey. Datas collected from 157 many 5-8th. grade students from two secondary schools in Kars central in 2014-2015 educational year. Erros types are given as frequences and means according to gender and grades. Behavioral faults in reading are given as frequences according to grades as well. Finally, adding, skipping, misreading and repeating errors are compared in terms of gender, grades, Turkish lesson score in the last school report, time of daily reading, number of reading books in a year. The only meaningful difference is determined in skipping error in terms of gender. Girls have meaningfully less skipping error than boys. The most frequent errors according to mean are repeating, skipping, misreading and adding. The most common errors are repeating, skipping, adding and misreading. The most common behavioral faults in reading are turning head while reading and being unable to adjust the distance to text. 

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