The place of characterisation in course books and workbooks of secondary school

Inthisstudy, secondary 5, 6, 7 and 8 classes in Turkish course books fictions character drawing (characterization) in terms of examining the Turkish course workbooks activity and question the character drawing a given location is evaluated in terms. Text description, analys is and inter pretation of eventsand questions focused on the importance of drawing the character is revealed. Study; secondary characters in fictional texts in Turkish textbooks drawing to examinet heplace, to emphasize the importance of drawing the characters, events, and questions about the study is to evaluate drawing the character sout. In this context, the character drawing on the secondary Turkish courses in the program achievements, achievementsand text, the text foreffectivenessand questions parallelism, character drawing, place, characters, presentation, drawing , space, theme elements, such as the relationship is examined. Research, 5, 6, 7 and 8th grade Turkish course books and workbooks examined in terms of the characters is limited to sketching. Qualitative research methods we reapplied to the analysis of thetypes of content. In this context, the text elements of the structural and semantic integrity of the character sand creating the text plays an important role both in terms of signification that are shown on selected texts from textbooks.