ABSTRACT

Course book is a main resource that includes topics of the program and aims to make students gain knowledge, skills, and habits. Texts in the Turkish Language course books have a vital role in raising esthetic emotions, making students love their mother tongue, raising consciousness in language, teaching rules of that language and helping those rules to be permanent, developing students in terms of knowledge and emotions, arousing interest in their culture and values, and educating them by giving various messages. The reason is that in Turkish Language classes, basic linguistic skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) are thought through those texts. The aim of this study is to examine the texts that are found in the 3rd and 4rh grade Turkish Language course books and including three common themes (Individual and the Society, Atatürk, Values) in terms of syntax. The course books are published by two different publishing houses (the names of the publishing houses are Özgün and Engin) and are recommended by the Ministry of Education and the Board of Education and Discipline. Meaningful patterns in the texts of 3rd and 4th grade course books were determined through document analysis and the results were compared in terms of quality and quantity.