Examination of the Mistakes Made by Primary School Students in Writing and Their Literacy Levels

The purpose of this research is to examine the writing mistakes and writing skill levels of primary school students. The sample of the research in the descriptive survey model consisted of 232 students studying at the lower, middle, upper and lower socio-economic levels in the Nizip and Karkamis districts of Gaziantep in 20162017 academic year. The data are collected using by 'Writing Mistakes Evaluation Scale', 'Multidimensional Legibility Scale' and dictation text. As a result of the research, it is determined that there are mistakes in the writing of the letters in the direction of writing, in a right-angled manner and in line with the lines; the sufficiency of the letters in the word, in the legibility of words, in finding missing or unnecessary letters in words, in forgetting the points in words. When examined according to sentences; at the beginning of the line, the distance between the sentences and the use of punctuation marks have been found to be mistaken. When the manuscripts are examined as a whole, it has been seen that the error has been made in preserving the oblique in the writing, writing the written text obliquely, finding a general aesthetics of the writing. At the literacy level of the students' writing; there is a significant difference in favor of female students in the second and fourth grade; there is no significant difference between the first and third grade students. In addition, according to the socio-economic level, there is a significant difference in the first, third, and fourth grades in favor of students with good socio-economic level.