Translation of the fairy tales in the tale set Daristana Şêrîn into Turkish and investigation of their suitability in terms of teaching Turkish

Fairy tales are one of the foremost kinds of texts that students read or listen with more pleasure regarding to the other literary texts. Tales that are qualified and written suitable for the level of the students should be used in education more frequently. The aim of this research is to examine the practicality of some tales written in Kurdish by translating them into Turkish for teaching Turkish. In this research, the document analysis method was used. The original Daristana Şêrîn fairy tale set was obtained from the publisher and translated into Turkish. The tales in this set were examined one by one in terms of language, narration, content and values. How many values are there in each fairy tale is presented in tables. Moreover, the difficulty of the syllables of these tales have been presented in tables based on the average number of syllables and sentence lengths in terms of comprehensibility. In the current study, it is concluded that these tales are suitable for primary education level both in terms of language expression and content, and that they can be used in Turkish textbooks. Keywords: Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, Turkish Language Teaching, Values, Comprehensibility