The relationship between the skills of reading comprehension and writing of the 6th, 7th and the 8th grade students

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the skills of reading comprehension and writing of the 6th, 7th and the 8th grade students. In terms of this aim, the effects of sex, grade, socio economic levels and living in an advantegous or disadventagous neighbourhood in terms of the use of standard Turkish on the skills of reading comprehension and writing have been analysed.The universe of the study was made of 6th, 7th and the 8th grade students studying in state schools in Keşan, Edirne in 2010-2011 educational year by using relationship scanning model of all the general scanning models. Leveled sampling and group sampling techniques were used together while the sampling of the study was being formed in order to determine the effect of the socio economic level on the reading comprehension and writing skills. The study was made over 330 students of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students studying in the elementary schools of Yekta Baydar, Ahmet Yenice, Bademlik, Ali Kale ve Kardeşleri, İnönü and Atatürk in Keşan, Edirne.The data necessary for testing of the main problem and the sub-problems were acquired by means of the Turkish Reading Comprehension Test and Classic Writing application prepared by the researcher. Writing skill evaluation scale was formed by the researcher to evaluate the writing Works. SPSS 17.0 (The Statistical Packet for The Social Sciences) software was made use of to do the necessary statistical calculations for the data.At the end of the study, a positive and high relationship was found between the skills of reading comprehension and writing. Also in reading comprehension, a positive and statistically meaningful difference was detected for the advantage of girls in terms of sex, of the students in an advantegous neighbourhood in terms of the use of standard Turkish and of the high group in terms of socio economic level. There is not any meaningful difference according to the grade variable among the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. In writing, there is a positive and meaningful difference for the advantage of girls in terms of sex, of the high group in terms of socio economic level, the students in an advantegous neighbourhood in terms of the use of standard Turkish. A statistically meaningful difference was detected among the 6th, 7th and 8th grades writing in terms of grade. No statistically meaningful difference could be detected in writing skill between 7th and 8 th grades.Key words: Reading, reading comprehension, writing, socioeconomic level, Turkish.