Abstract:

As reading skills gained in Turkish courses is a factor which affects their success in other school subjects, reading materials used in Turkish should be reconstructed considering the international reading criteria. In this study, reading texts and exercises in the middle school Turkish textbooks were analyzed. The results were analyzed using descriptive research methods including document and content analaysis techniques. The results revealed that course books and student workbooks were unlikely to contribute to the improvement of students' high level reading skills. The study also revealed that course books did not include enough number of reading texts that require different reading styles with different purposes. Besides, the majority of theme related measurement and evaluation activities and questions were found to measure low level reading skills. 

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