Analyzing of fairy tales and stories of Turkish second grade education books in term of character education

The concept of character, character education, child and developmental characteristics of 13-15 ages children, children's literature, characteristics of fairy tales and the story has an important place in children's literature are described in this study. This study attempts to explain if the fairy tale character traits mentioned in tales and story texts in second grade Turkish textbooks.Character education has a very important place for students of second stage as each stage. Character formation shows itself at 13-15 ages children. It shows that texts they read at Turkish lessons are importent. In this study, sought answers to questions such as what kind of characters can be found in these texts, how explained they are, what are the benefits for the students in terms of character education.What attracted the children to these texts tales and stories is their character. Child, shows interest in fairy tales and stories of some characters, at the some time not feel close to some of characters. This study examines the work of these characters. Characters, how describe them, what kind of message has been given to children in texts, main features of characters are described in this study.In terms of character education in two books of fairy tales and stories in Turkish publishing house has received a number of them are shown above.In the first part of this study some headline such as status of the problem, aim, importance of the study, assumptions and limiteds are been described.In the second part of this study, research model, population and sample, data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation of the data has been explained.In the third chapter, texts are processed in the ?Results and Comments