Investigation of the Activities in the Third Grade Turkish Course Book in Primary Education through Teacher's Opinions

The course book is a book prepared to give information to students, to provide activities for activating the acquired knowledge, to give insights them for scientific thinking, attitude, and behavior. Course books used in Primary schools are very important for students. A course book comprises of texts and context-based activities to provide assessment and evaluations for these texts. The purpose of this search is to analyze the activities in the 3rd grades Turkish course books according to the primary education teachers’ opinions. The study group of this search constitutes 20 primary education teachers working in ？aycuma district of Zonguldak province in 2017-2018 academic year. Sampling method which is easily practicable from the purposeful sampling methods was used in the selection, 4 questions and semi structured interview form comprising of sub-questions related to these questions were used. In the analysis of the data acquired from the interviews, content analysis was used from qualitative data analysis techniques. According to the results obtained in the research, the teachers generally underlined that the activities in the Turkish textbook were suitable for the learning outcomes in the Turkish curriculum but they were generally unsuitable for student levels