The factors that affects to the secondary school students readi̇ng comprehensi̇on levels

This research has been conducted in order to determine the reading comprehension levels of secondary school 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and whether there are any discrepancies according to age, gender, family income or parent education level. The study is a kind of descriptive research. The study conducted with 301 students who were chosen according to random clustering samples from 5 schools 6th, 7th, 8th grade in 2010-2011 at Bolu. At the study as data gathering tool in order to obtain information about students families and their own used optical form which they can mark their personel information and "Reading Comprehension Test" in order to measure to what extent they understand what they read. The students also marked their reading comprehension test answers to optical form. Optical forms have been taught, data is evaluated by using SPSS statistical analysis program. To reveal the influence of the gender factor in reading comprehension t test for, in order to reveal the influence of parents educational status and family income status in reading comprehension one way analysis of variance, in order to put forth the influence of gender in reading comprehension pearson correlation was applied. As a result of the analysis students general reading comprehension levels found 7,8, according to gender, parents educational status, family economic income variables reading comprehension levels seemed differ significantly. Mother educational status and gender variables also reveals not to differ significantly in reading comprehension level. Key Words: Reading, Reading Comprehension