Evaluation of the primary school 4th grade students' story writing skills

The purpose of this research is to view the development of the primary school fourth grade students' story writing skills. In research; qualitative and quantitative model were used descriptive analysis, content analysis and interview techniques were utilized. In research, a scale about evaluation of story writing skill and a semi-structured interview form were used as data collection tools. This research's workgroup was determined with easily accessible sampling technique and two different workgroups were created. The first workgroup included 142 primary school fourth grade students who study in Kula, Manisa in 2018-2019 education year and the second workgroup included 22 primary school teachers who have experience about the fourth grade students. In research firstly 'Evaluation Scale of Story Writing Skills' has been developed. The stories written by students were evaluated with this scale. The students' story writing levels were evaluated out of five. When findings of research were taken in to consideration; it's undestood that students story writing skills are of intermediate level. Teachers who have experience with the fourth grade students stated their opinions about the fourth grade students' story writing skills. Thematic coding was utilized to state teacher opinions. Teacher opinions were categorized into six items that includes; strenghts, loved aspects, weaknesses, unlovable aspects, the activities that are used to develop the story writing skills and evaluation criteria. At the end of the research, these have been identified as the strong aspects of students on using imagination, the writing story activities mostly used to develop writing skill and the consideration of spelling rules and punctuation fort he assessment. In the stories that are written by the workgroup of primary school fourth grade students; the subject, main character, setting preferences, the students' stories were obtained by scanning with descriptive analysis. Friend relationships, love for animals,sedulity terms are the most used subjects. Using forest, school, home as place factor and summer, morning, winter season as time factor is more common. Keywords: Writing, Story, Developing Scale