The Effects of Story Maps İn Finding The Main Idea in Narrative Texts The quality and the type of texts used in primary school aged children have a large importance on supporting their language skills. Especially in 1- 5 grade Turkish classes, majority of the classes use narrative texts and these language teaching texts are the main materials used for children at this age. One of the most important elements for narrative text is to find the main idea. The ability of finding the main idea is not a skill easily gained. Therefore, this study examined primary 5th grade students skills of finding main ideas in narrative texts and the effectiveness of story maps. The sample of the study forms, 55 students who are attending 5th grade in the academic year of 2011-2012.``Finding the main idea and Reading Comprehen