Özet:

Students in the primary age begin to learn the subtles, beauty, and wealth of their mother tongue. In the pre-school period, the children who listen to the stories, after the beginning of primary school, begin to read them, write them. Literary texts cause children to develop their mental and linguistic skills, to increase their imagination, to advance their thoughts, to look positively on life. Children's literature is a verbal and written product that addresses the dreams and thoughts of children who contribute to their growth and development, while educating and entertaining. The stories that are among the children’s literary products contribute both to the development of the child’s language and to the cultural learning. In this context, it has been known that the stories have been educational function for years. The best examples of children’s understanding, perception, interpretation are the fairy tales that are among the most suitable literary texts to be used in strengthening the teaching of the mother tongue. The stories contained in the books should be studied very carefully, researched. Some of the stories in the Turkish lesson books remove the child from the story and the passion for reading. It should be careful that there are no texts that only advise the child, lack language pleasure, does not address the child’s imagination world, does not develop the thinking power. It should be careful that the texts in the textbooks are in different types. In this study, the contribution of fairy tales to the language development and the education of values of children, the classification of fairy tales, the division of them, the facts that should be observed in the fairy tales in the lesson books. It has also been studied in detail from which points of view a narrative will be useful to students.

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