Özet:

The study aims to study the reading attitudes of primary school students and identify the variables that affect the reading attitude. As a result of the fact that there is a situation that is intended to be revealed, the scan model was used in the research. The investigation was carried out in the city of Samsun. There is no way to get the sample because it can be reached to all primary schools in the district. The research has been developed by McKenna & Kear (1990) with demographic information forms as a data collection tool and has been used by different researchers in the Turkish language by the "Listening Attitude Scale-Elementary Reading Attidute Survey (ERAS)". Research has shown that primary school students have a positive reading attitude. It has been found that girls have a significantly high reading attitude from male students; first class students have a significantly high reading attitude from fourth class students. It is also found that there is a meaningful relationship between the number of books read in a year and the attitude to read. The study found no meaningful relationship between the level of education of parents and the level of reading attitude of students. The research resulted in meeting students with books from early age to their interests; in the development of reading attitude, recommendations such as providing school, family, student cooperation were made.