Teacher opinions about visual reading activities in the Turkish books of the first class students in primary school

This study has been applied to determine the teacher opinions about visual reading activities in the Turkish books of the first class students in primary school.The research is in the screening model, which is one of the qualitative research models. Screening model is a research approach that aims to describe a situation, as it is, which is available at the present time and in history. The case, person or object that is research subject in screening models has been identified, as they are, under their current conditions. The imported thing in the screening models is to observe and determine the existing appropriately and without changing. (Karasar, 2005).The research has been applied to the first year-teachers (100 teachers) who work in primary schools in the centre of province Sakarya. 10 questionnaire items have been conducted to the teachers with the aim of determining the teacher opinions about visual reading activities in the Turkish books of the first class students in primary school. Additionally, the open ended questions of questionnaire items have been addressed to the teachers and their opinions have been received.Totally 100 questionnaire of 150 questionnaires, that were sent to the schools within the sample, have been returned and subjected to evaluation. The data obtained with result of questionnaire have been evaluated in the SPPS statistic program.Key Words: First Grade Literacy, Visual Reading, Visual Literacy, Voice Based Sentence Method.