An Investigation of Visual Reading Activities in Student Workbooks of 1st – 5th Grades Turkish Course

This study aims at investigating the situation of visual reading outcomes of 1st -5th grades Turkish Course in student workbook activities and the coherence between theactivities and outcomes. In this study, visual reading outcomes in Primary Education TurkishCourse Curriculum and those outcomes related with activities in “Turkish Course StudentWorkbooks” written by The Ministry of National Education in 2007 for 1st -5th grades wereinvestigated through documentary analysis. For data analysis, descriptive analysis wasconducted. According to the result of the study, it was determined that while some of theoutcomes (such as “comments on pictures and photographs”, “writes sentences and texts viastarting from visuals”, “knows the meaning of figures, symbols and signs”) frequently tookplace in the activities in student workbooks, some of them (such as uses information and communication technologies to collect data) were not observed. Indeed it was seen that someof the outcomes (such as “questions the messages in advertisements”, “interpretsinformation, news and ideas which are given by mass communications, reads map and plan”,“perceives the message given in caricatures.”) took place in few activities.