The Consideration of Issues Regarding Families' Selection on Reading Materials for Their Children and Activities during Presentation of These Materials


Gonen M., Ozen Altinkaynak S., Sanli Z. S., Kent Kukurtcu S.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, cilt.30, sa.2, ss.30-41, 2015 (SSCI) identifier identifier

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The processes of selecting reading materials for children and the presentation styles of these materials play a critical role on the gaining and maintaining the reading habits. The planned activities before reading, essential points during reading, storytelling techniques and the post reading activities considerably affects the interest and opinions of children to books and literature. Thus, the goal of the researcher is to specify the essential point families pay attention in selecting reading materials for their children and the presentation activities of those materials. This study conducted with 121 families whose children were going to a preschool, was a survey method. The data of the study was gathered by the use of "Selecting Reading Material in Children's Literature and Activity Assessment Form" which was prepared by the researchers. The study findings indicate that the issues families pay attention in selecting reading materials for their children and the activities they perform in the presentation process of those materials were limited.