The effect of creative reading activities on high-level reading comprehension skills and reading motivation

In this study, the impact of creative reading activities on advanced reading comprehension skills and reading motivation in Turkish language instruction has been investigated. The sample of the study consists of 45 students, including 23 students in the experimental group and 22 students in the control group, who are in the 7th grade of Alanya Emişbeleni İmam Hatip Secondary School and Emişbeleni Secondary School. During the implementation process, for duration of eight weeks, the experimental group received activities planned according to the creative reading approach with three class hours per week, on the other hand, the control group was exposed to traditional reading activities from the 7th grade Turkish course book of the Ministry of National Education. In the research, a mixed-method approach was adopted, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methods. Descriptive statistics, paired sample t-test, and ANOVA were used for the analysis of the collected quantitative data in the research. Descriptive analysis and content analysis were used for the analysis of the qualitative data collected through the semi-structured interview form. The research concluded that creative reading activities have a positive impact on the reading comprehension skills and reading motivation of the students in the experimental group. Furthermore, it was observed that the students in the experimental group expressed positive opinions regarding the creative reading activities and implementations. Keywords: Reading, creative reading, advanced reading comprehension, reading motivation.