An investigation of the poems in secondary school Turkish textbooks in terms of vocabulary types

Human; It is a creature that was born with the ability to acquire language, grows and develops itself with language, socializes with language, and lives with language. The first contact of a person who is born with the ability to learn a language is with his mother tongue. Human beings begin to communicate with other people by learning their mother tongue. Expressing oneself correctly depends on using the language effectively and beautifully. This is related to one's vocabulary and how much one knows the rules of the language. The language education of the child now gains an official dimension with the school. The child starts to learn the rules of the language at school and to use the language better. Children develop their vocabulary through texts in children's literature and textbooks. The type of poetry that positively affects the cognitive development of the child has a great share in this. With the types of poetry in the textbooks, children's language development and vocabulary type learning develop. This study was carried out in the genre of poetry. The research was carried out in order to reveal the distribution of the word types in the poems in the secondary school Turkish textbooks. Qualitative research approach was used in the study. In this study, in which a descriptive approach was used in the scanning model, the document analysis method was used. In the research, the types of words used in the poems in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade Turkish textbooks were determined. According to this, the most used word type at all four grade levels was noun, while the least used word type was exclamation. A total of 28 poems were analyzed at four grade levels. These poems were grouped separately according to their grade levels and examined. The distribution of the word types in the poems at each grade level was transferred to separate charts and tables. Poet information was also included in the study and how many poems were analyzed from which poet was made into a graphic. Considering that the texts in the textbooks have an important place in teaching vocabulary to children, it is thought that the study will make an important contribution to this issue