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In order for the fairy tale to maintain its effect on individuals, it must be transmitted to future generations in different ways. One of these transmitters is the storytellers. With the use of fairy tales in activities for basic language skills, fairy tales have become an important part of Turkish language teaching. Thus, Turkish teachers directly or indirectly assume the role of storytellers. For this reason, the opinions of Turkish teachers or prospective Turkish teachers about storytelling are important. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the opinions of prospective Turkish teachers about story and tale telling course. Phenomenological (phenomenological) design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study and hermeneutic (interpretive) model, one of the types of phenomenological design, was used. The research was carried out on 26 3rd grade students continuing their education in the Department of Turkish Language Teaching at Bayburt University Faculty of Education in the autumn term of the 2022-2023 academic year. A semi-structured interview form consisting of 7 questions was used to determine their views on the "Story and Tale Telling" course. Content analysis technique was used to analyse the collected data. According to the opinions of prospective Turkish teachers, story and tale telling course is very important for prospective teachers.

This study delves into the realm of critical multimodal literacy through the lens of fairy tale reconstruction. Employing an innovative pedagogical approach, the research examines how students engage with and transform traditional narratives using a critical perspective and digital tools. This action research showcases how students collaboratively reconstructed fairy tales by reshaping characters, plotlines, and themes, with a particular emphasis on gender roles and empowerment. The integration of digital platforms facilitated the transformation, allowing for creative exploration of characters, settings, and emotions. Findings reveal that students exhibited nuanced critical insights as they questioned and reshaped traditional gender representations, power dynamics, and narrative structures. This research contributes to educational practices by highlighting the potential of critical multimodal literacy activities in fostering transformative learning experiences. By integrating critical analysis with digital storytelling, this study opens avenues for advancing pedagogical strategies that promote critical engagement, multimodal expression, and societal reflection.

This research aims to support the "teaching of concepts" in the 3rd grade Life Science Course with activities. A quasi-experimental design (selective) with a pre-test and post-test control group, one of the quantitative research designs, was used in the research. Using songs, poems, rhymes, acrostics, stories, fairy tales, riddles/puzzles, animations, and traditional children's games, the experimental group's success in acquiring certain concepts from the third-grade life science course was enhanced by developing and implementing the above activities. Research data were collected with the "Concept Achievement Test" developed by the researcher by quantitative research data collection techniques. In the data analysis, arithmetic means were used to determine the academic success of the experimental and control groups. The Independent Sample t-Test was used for comparisons between groups. As a result of the research, there was a considerable achievement gap between the experimental and control groups, with the experimental group performing significantly better. According to these results, activities structured with songs, poems, nursery rhymes, acrostics, stories, fairy tales, puzzles/riddles, animations, and traditional children's games significantly impact student success in teaching concepts in third-grade elementary school biology classes. These activities apparently increase student success rates and are useful in this regard.

The socio-dynamics of the 21st century classroom reveals the importance of gender sensitivity as a living mechanism which constructs both intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. This study explores how reading and discussing comparative children's literature could impact pre-service English teachers' understanding of gender issues at a university in the west of Turkey. Adopting a qualitative case study design, the present study involved 25 senior pre-service teachers who were taking the literature course in the 2018-2019 academic year, fall term. Data was collected through written reports and semi-structured interviews. We analyzed the data inductively with codes and themes developing out of a recursive process of data collection and analysis. The findings display that a comparative analysis of fairy tales is an effective means through which the pre-service teachers develop gender sensitivity and become critically literate as a teacher. Besides, the comparative analysis helps the female participants improve self-sufficiency as a woman. Implications are also included for language teacher education programs.

The present study aims to determine the readability and clarity levels of certain Turkish tales for middle-school students. The study was conducted with a survey model. The study material consists of three tales each chosen from the books titled "Az Gittik Uz Gittik" and "Masal Masal Içinde," and the study group consists of 90 students who were studying in a middle school located in the central district of a province in the Spring semester of the 2018- 2019 academic year. The data collection tools used in the study include the Atesman Readability Formula, Çetinkaya-Uzun Readability Formula, and a Cloze Readability Application. Data collection was performed in two stages. In the first stage, the readability conditions of the first one hundred words of the tales were determined in order to apply the readability formulas. In the second stage, the Cloze Readability application was completed within three weeks by applying it to the study group using two texts per week. The analysis of the data was performed using the Descriptive Analysis technique. It was determined that the tales had a readability level of "easy" according to the Atesman readability formula, and "educational" according to the Çetinkaya-Uzun readability formula. It was found that the book titled "Az Gittik Uz Gittik" had a readability level of "difficult (frustration)" while the book titled "Masal Masal Içinde" had a readability level of "educational (assisted)" according to the Cloze Readability application.

Storybook reading experiences have the potential to foster children's cognitive skills in regard to sequencing a story plot, making predictions about the outcome, comprehending the story's message, and understanding cause-and-effect relationships. Deconstruction enables children to think critically about the story's protagonist's perspectives, themes, and messages. Thus, deconstruction can be a useful method for examining a story's elements with children and triggering them to make intertextual connections among stories. This study focuses on preschoolers' intertextual connection competencies and provides them with a novel activity. Therefore, the study focused on a well-known fairytale titled "The Little Red Riding Hood" along with two different, newer versions of the story. The present study's participants included thirty preschool children (fifteen girls and fifteen boys). The following three versions of the "Red Riding Hood" stories were read twice during the small group reading activity: "The Little Red Riding Hood," "Very Little Red Riding Hood" (written by Teresa Heapy, illustrated by Sue Heap), and "Who is Afraid of Red Riding Hood?" (written by Sara Sahinkanat, illustrated by Ayse Inan Alican). The stories present different perspectives and contradictory messages regarding the same topic. The findings revealed that the children talked about intertextual linkage between story plots wherein they focused on the climaxes as dissimilar and similar points. The study findings show that half of the children retold their stories along the same lines as those in the previous stories. On the other hand, eleven children drew intertextual connections in their stories and combined different characters, plots, and/or settings from the three versions. Deconstruction can be a fruitful teaching method with which early childhood teachers may encourage children to assert perspectives, think critically, and make intertextual connections among stories to foster their story comprehension.

The present study aims to examine the use of picture books in preschool classes. Case Study, a qualitative research method, was employed as the research method. The data were collected through video recording, semistructured interviews, and documents. They were analyzed by means of document and descriptive analysis techniques. The research findings revealed that the books in the classes were generally composed of the picture books in the form of series and fairy tale books. Teachers participating in this study thought that books were not sufficient in most classes and that in addition to the books present in the classes, there should be more books related to science. The research findings showed that when children are read informative picture books, they display more distracted behavior compared to when narrative picture books are read. However, when examined in general, distracted behavior by children while the teacher reads were understood to be associated more with the strategies that the teacher uses while reading. The most remarkable finding of the study was that the teachers made a limited eye contact with the children while story reading, they did not adjust their tones according to the characters and carry out an activity except asking questions about the story in the post-story reading process.

The purpose of this research is to analyze Turkish fairy tales in the context of educational properties of fairy tales. 10 Turkish fairy tales gathered around from different parts of Turkey by several researchers have been analyzed in the scope of the research conducted by document analysis method. Determining factors of the chosen fairy tales were that they had different storylines and characters and that they were from different regions of Turkey. The data analysis of the research was conducted with content analysis method and most of the analyzed fairy tales were exemplary to the reader-listener showing the characteristics of selflessness, bravery, benevolence, and honesty whereas some of the fairy tales were found to be weak in directing the reader-listener to act with confidence and use intelligence by portraying an image of dependency for supernatural powers while solving problems by the protagonists.

Fairy tales are used intensively by Turkish teachers in Turkish lessons. Elements in tales need to be examined in many respects such as their suitability for cultural transmission, psychological benefits, and harms, correct and effective use of language and so on. The opinions of the Turkish teachers in the field are very important for this subject which needs to be examined in depth. This research's model is descriptive, semi-structured interview is a data collection tool for this research. Participants except one seem to have found tales interesting for all students. It is seen that teachers use talents primarily for semantic knowledge and moral values, and then for language skills achievements. Teachers have answers that they use tales more for values such as goodness, honesty, respect, and love. There may be an interpretation that teachers often do not encounter situations where students generally look askance at tales. It is seen that teachers are leading the opinion that there is not a fairy tale that should not be read. This answer is followed by the response that tales with negative contents should not be read. Ranking of tales of most positive reactions given by students can be done respectively as: all tales which have a happy ending, Keloglan tales, Snow white tales, Aesop's Fables… According to teachers, tales which should be absolutely read by students are listed as follows: Keloglan, Grimm Brothers, One Thousand and One Nights.

Bibliotheraphy is defined as "recovery through books" and can be implemented in various ways, one of them is "developmental bibliotheraphy" technique, which can be applied at schools, classrooms or libraries under the guidance of a teacher. The objective of this study is to analyse the tales book called "Evvel Zaman Içinde" by Eflâtun Cem Güney through developmental bibliotheraphy technique. The seven stories called "The Brocaded Shoe, The Beaded Quilt, The Three Oranges, Sedef Sister, The Dough Baby, The Haunted Hand, The Golden Forelocked Boy and The Golden Haired Girl" within the folk tales book mentioned here are evaluated upon the basis of points such as not giving up hope, dealing with various problems, benevolence, recognising others and empathy, developing a more positive sense of self, adapting to different and new situations, forgiveness and tolerance. In this study, the descriptive analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods, is used. At the end of the research, points such as "benevolence and cooperation, recognising others and empathy (social consciousness), developing a more positive sense of self, perseverance, communication skills" which are involved in the folk tales book called ''Once Upon a Time'' by Eflatun Cem GÜNEY are presented in details and suggestions are made regarding the findings as well.

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In this study, the opening formula of Tatar and Bashkir Turks, who live in Idel-Ural Region, and their classification are discussed. A classification experiment was made for typology, and its applicability for the narratives from the Turkic world was tested through the opening formula. For this reason, the following steps were completed in this study, respectively. In the introduction part, it was first emphasized that the Turkish used the formula in these narratives in similar ways. However, the problem of not being able to classify these formula and their usage variety with a method that can be improved and contributed has been addressed. Then, a general information was provided about the history of the geography, in which the tales examined in this study are told, and the owner of this geography, Tatar and Bashkir Turks; it was advocated that the studies on these two Turkic peoples should not be addressed separately. In the first part of the study, in line with the opinions of some scholars working on formula forms in types of oral narratives, the question of "What is formula as a folklore term?" was sought an answer, and this term is explained as "Remarkable and special forms of expression with certain duties told when opening the narration by the narrator, connecting the events in the narration or transitioning between the events, and making analogies in the narrative and finishing the narrative." In the second part, firstly, information about "The Opening formula in Tales" is provided. The opening formula were divided into three types as "plain", "with words of time" and "with rhymes" based on the characteristics of their styles. The reason for this differentiation was explained along with the examples of opening formula. Afterwards, detailed information about these three styles of opening formula was given under the sub-headings, respectively; attention was drawn to their characteristics of use. In the third part of the study, a classification experiment was conducted on the "Classification of the Opening Formula in Tatar and Bashkir Tales". Before this experiment, information was given on the classifications of Stith Thompson and Saim Sakaoğlu. In the classification, Thompson's alphabetical numbering method in his Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (MIFL) was blended with Sakaoglu's technique of denominating items, considering the possible opening formula that could be added later; thus, the opening formula in Tatar and Bashkir tales are classified. However, the resulting classification was presented in an original form independent of these two studies; and it was applied for the first time in the present study. Before the implementation, the scope was specified by giving information about the benchmark tales, and the step followed in the implementation was explained. In the application part, the opening formula in the 60 Tatar and 60 Bashkir fairy tales are shown by selecting one of the samples of the same type under the relevant items of the classification. These examples are provided with the Latinized form of the original Cyrillic version, translated to Turkish used in Turkey. The remaining similar examples are shown by giving the page numbers in the books in which they are included. During classification and sampling, the specific Turkic peoples to which the tales belong such as Tatar and Bashkir, are shown under the relevant item. However, in the conclusion part, the data and findings obtained were evaluated as a whole. In the conclusion part, a table was created before proceeding to the review. The table presented the usage forms of the opening formula used in Tatar and Bashkir tales within an order from general to specific; the numbers of usage were written next to them. Reviews were made based on these numerical/statistical data. Three pie charts were prepared and the percentages indicating the frequencies regarding the usage of opening formula were found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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