Abstract:

Relational method was employed in this study which aims to analyze the relationship between visual reading skill and reading comprehension skill of primary school students. This research was conducted among 52 fourth grade students who were selected through simple random sampling method from Ankara, Çankaya district. In this research, visual reading test on five animated short movies by Pixar to assess visual reading skill of students and reading comprehension test to assess reading comprehension of students were developed. Visual reading test was given to 273 students in order to determine validity and reliability values and the cronbach's alpha coefficient obtained by the reliability analysis is above .80 . Research findings indicate that there is a positive significant relation between total scores [r=.44] of primary school fourth grade students in visual reading test and reading comprehension test.

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