| Christina Nehring, in her article dated on June 27, 2004 and titled “Books MakeYou a Boring Person” says “Books keep kids off drugs. They keep gang members out of prison. They keep terrorists, for all we know, at the gates.”(Nehring, 2004; Accesed 20.06. 2016). In parallel to that, Brottman (2014, 16) states that books have the power to save lives, to make you a better and more interesting one, to escape poverty, to provide you joy, success and prosperous future. Similar expressions are also stated by Altug, Filiztekin, Pamuk (2008) and Veryeri Alaca, Kuntay (2015, 10) by emphasizing probable impact of reading on socio-economic development. Besides, it is seen that some researchers have stated that it is necessary to benefit literary works in transferring of national and universal values (Kortenhaus and Demarest, 1993; Tomlinson and Lynch-Brown 1996; Wynne and Ryan, 1997; Kavcar, 1999; Oguzkan, 2001; Arseven, 2005; Sever, 2008; Turkyilmaz, 2012a). As the reading materials are significant in academic achievement and lifelong learning, it is essential to read and understand those. It is got the meaning of text by reading. In the simplest term, reading is comprehension and making sense of messages sent through symbols, signals and various visuals. In furtherance those expressions, Ozbay and Bahar (2012, 174) emphasize that reading is, for all intents and purposes, a comprehension and interpretation task. In Turkey, while making one learn the literacy skill, inductive method is employed. There is a process followed while making one acquire reading skill. It is performed from sound, the smallest unit of language, to sentence. In the … |
Prof. Dr. Mustafa TÜRKYILMAZ
