READABILITY AND TO TARGET AGE LEVEL SUITABILITY OF GEOGRAPHY 10 HIGH SCHOOL COURSE BOOK ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS

The purpose of this study is to determine students’ reading levels by using cloze test and FOG Formula on selected texts from geography textbooks at tenth grade. The study has been realized in two phases. Firstly, One of every 5-6 words has been erased from a selected text in geography textbook according to Cloze Test and the blanknesses have been composed in text. The getting filled of these blanknesses were wanted from students. This cloze test passage was conducted on three high schools from various districts of Turkey. Secondly, four different texts selected from the same textbook have been analyzed according to FOG Formula.Research results shows that Geography textbook is not convenient for students according to cloze tests, but as for FOG Formula, it has no an important problems.