The Effect of Teaching Based on Mental Image Formation on Reading Comprehension Skills

The aim of study is determine effect of taching based on mental image formation on reading comprehension skills of primary school third grade. The study was designed based on semi-experimental design with pre-test-posttest control group of quantitative research methods. The study's sample group consisted of 37 students who were selected from the students who were in the third grade of the state primary schools whose middle socio-economic level in Bayburt province center was in the fall term of 2017-2018 academic year and who were selected as experimental and control group. In this study, the data were collected through two reading comprehension tests consisting of informative and narrative texts developed by the researchers. In the study, it was concluded that there is no significant difference between the narrator and informative text post-test scores of the third grade students who receive or do not receive mentally image-based instruction.