The investigation of the effects of dramatic play practice given with picture based story books on point of view gains for six year-old children groups

This research was done by the purpose of the investigation of the effects of dramatic play practice given with picture based story books on point of view gains for six year-old children groups. 40 children in the experiment group, 30 children in the control group were included in the research. In the research, a dramatic play education program was performed on the experiment group children wasoughout 12 weeks, 3 days in a week at least 20 minutes a day. In the control group, their daily education program continued as usually. The datas collected with "General Information Form" and "Point of View Receiving Test" in the research. Datas were interpreted with SPSS 15 Packaged software. Beside frequency and percentage distribution, comparisons with two groups and pre-test final-test comparisons were made in the interpretations. Mann-Whitney U Test was used in two groups comparisons because of the datas distributed normally and Wilcoxen Sign Test used in pre-test final-test comparisons.Significant differences were determined at all sub-factors in Point of View Receiving Test at the experiment group children's which dramatic play education program were performed on, point of view gains ( p<0.05 ). By the results of statistical procedures, it is proved that the dramatic play education program given with picture based story books affected children's point of view receiving abilities positively. In the beginning, two group's Point Of View Receiving Test's pre-test points were at the same level but after performing the education the final-test points were different. As an outcome of this research, the dramatic play education program given with picture based story books affected children's point of view receiving abilities positively.Key words: Dramatic Play, Picture Based Story Books, Point of View, Preschool Education.