Eğitim Kuram ve Uygulama Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Reading interest is a power that moves the mind
of an individual into action and directs it to read. This power provides a
variety of benefits such as reading, habit formation, language, mental and
social skills development. This is the reason for being tried to improve from
early ages. This interest begins with choosing interesting books and texts,
reading and analysing them, and transferring learning into practice. In this
process, the texts chosen by the students make it easy to read carefully, to
understand well and to remember. It also supports the development of learning,
inquiry, research, self-improvement, and lifelong learning skills of the
students. The nature and depth of the reading interest is a subjective manner.
Students are interested in reading various genres such as continuous-interval,
activating-passivating, motion or subject-oriented, concrete-numerical,
verbal-numerical, individual or group-based. For this, it is emphasized to
determine the quality and level of students' reading interest. Following this
purpose, variables such as age and sex are taken into consideration as a
starting point, observations are made, questionnaire administration, using
various methods, text selection and environment editing. Thus, it is aimed to
develop reading interest, to increase fondly reading, to develop reading
skills, to turn students to be good readers and to continue life-long learning.