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Reading has been one of the prominent educational activities since the invention of writing. In the present time reading become more important if the reading activity is done for plesaure or to get the right information. It is also important to read quickly and comprehend the main idea. For these reasons learning “how to read and write” well in Turkish by following the appropriate steps in teaching “how to read and write” is very important. The methods of literacy teaching have developed very much over time in Turkey like all over the world. In Turkey, usage of letter method was used for a long time. After the letter method, phonetic method, syllabic method, vocable method, and sentence method were employed to train literacy. Old Turkish teaching curriculum which reflects behaviorist teaching theory was criticized for several reasons. These reasons are that the old curriculum motivated students to memorize, and was not effective for lasting literacy habits on students. After several small changes on the curriculum, a new literacy teaching curriculum was adopted in 2005. The foundation of the new curriculum is the constructive theory. After adapting the constructivist teaching theory, literacy teaching curriculum became phonetic based sentence method. With this new method, the writing style was also changed. At this time hand writing was reintroduced. So this study firstly explains the methods used in the teaching of reading and writing activities and their advantages and disadvantages. The study secondly reveals the views about the teaching of reading and writing using phonetic based sentence method.

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