Textual transcendence in secondary school (5-8. grades) Turkish course working book

In the study, the activities/questions in the secondary school (5-8th Grades) Turkish course working books prepared by (MEB) in 2016-2017 academic year have been examined in terms of textual transcendence. 5 different relation modes used by Gérard Genette in order to define textual-transcendence relations have been taken as basis activities/questions based on 'textual-transcendence' have been classified in accordance with 'intertextuality/intertextuality', supplemental 'textuality/paratextuality' 'interpretational top textuality/metatextuality', 'top textuality/achitextuality' and 'main textuality/hypertextuality' forms. It is considered the fact that the oral, written and visual products that the students have produced on the activities and questions are related with tool-texts (reading texts listening texts, visual products on the textbooks) in 'textual-transcendence, and that the students have adhered to the tools-texts and have revealed oral, written and visual products regarding them. It has been handled how intertextual relations are between the activities in the workbooks and the products created based on the questions of the students and tools-texts. In other words, it has been assessed in which platforms oral written and visual products that thestudents have revealed on the activities and questions with regard to the tool-texts are related in terms of intertextual relationswith regard to tool- texts with source text characteristic. Our study is a qualitative research and document analysis method is used. Secondary school (5-8th grades) Turkish Course working books have been examined and assessed by document scanning method. In this context, the table of the activities/questions based on 'textual-transcendent' in the workbooks and in the light of data reflecting to such tables, the relations of activities and questions with the features and cognitive skills that they have shown in the direction of textual-transcendence have been analyzed. Thus, the contextual, linguistic and formal features of texts, activities and questions have been examined and conclusions have been made in terms of 'textual-transcendence' in Turkish teaching. Key words: Turkish teaching, secondary school (5-8th grades) Turkish course, working books, activities/questions, Gerard Genette and textual-transcendence.