Review of the Critical Reading Education in the Primary Schools1

AbstractThe purpose of this research is to determine the 4th grade primary school students’ level of attaining critical reading gains in their Turkish lessons. In the study also it was aimed to reach opinions of the teachers about examining of the 4th grade primary students’ level of attaining critical reading skills. According to the results of the study, implementation of the available activitie and critical reading gains can be said to that it provides contribute to critical reading skills of the students. However, when numeric datas are analyzed, critical reading attainment level averages of the students are seen to vary in between 32.75 and 72.94, and is observed to be critical reading skills an intermediate level of the students. It has further been concluded that, nearly total of the students could not have attained the gain “Determines, and questions the emotional and exaggerated elements in what he/she reads. (32.75)” at all. That have not still reached gains of some critical reading or that have possessed of a critical reading skills of intermediate level in the 4th grade of students should be interrogated when considering of the gains of critical reading taught from the 2nd grade. Expected that it provides contribute to the literature and applications with these aspects of the research