Evaluation of the content and views of children's magazines

Children's magazines are children's literature products that are published in several literary genres and can be categorized as children's ages and development levels. Children can open up to different horizons according to the content of the magazine. Following the developments in scientific subjects, the magazines are eager to develop children's creativity; Some magazines try to appeal to children's world by addressing different sports, lifestyles, technology, animals, or geographical themes. It is a feature of children's magazines that it is funny finds, presents short and clear information, has poems, follow current events, offers chance to experiment with children in scientific studies and supports every page with photographs, cartoons or pictures in accordance with its content. This research aims to evaluate the subject areas of children's magazines published in Turkey in terms of text type, visuals, activities and student opinions. In this study: "What kind of texts do children's magazines published in Turkey", "What are the subject areas of children's magazines?", What kinds of visuals take place in children's magazines, "What kind of activities are there in children's magazines" How are student opinions about child magazines? " A qualitative model was used in this study. The data of the research were obtained by descriptive analysis, content analysis, document review and interview technique. The data of this study were collected from the numbers of children's magazines published in Turkey in 2016-2017. This work was started by discussing with teachers and students about which magazines should be examined. In this phase, the researcher also investigated which children's magazines are up-to-date on the internet. Tables were created for the children's magazines to be studied on the research in terms of types of texts (informative, poetic and event based), subject areas, visuals and activities. In this way, which magazines, which text types, subject areas, visuals, and how much involvement was revealed. There are also student opinions on children's magazines. In the direction of the results obtained in this study, even though the students of the children's magazines compare different types of texts and according to themes, literary product and contributed to the development of children.