Reading positively impact readers’ language, social, emotional and cognitive development. Moreover, written texts as reading materials provide opportunities for people to enjoy reading in general; have a good and/or relaxing time; learn about others’ experiences; get to know different characters, locations, events, emotions, devices, technologies, and times etc. Reading is also helpful to improve a student’s academic achievement. The purpose of this study is to investigate how much time do college students spend in pleasure reading? Which printed or online materials do students enjoy to read? Is there a relationship between the amount of time they spend for reading and their GPA’s and gender.

The participants of the study are last year students in the department of Elementary Education, Ankara University. Data will be collected in the beginning of the fall semester of 2016-2017 academic years. A questionnaire with both open ended and multiple choice questions will be used to collect data. The questionnaire is developed by the researchers based on the related literature and experts’ opinions. Data will be analysis via descriptive and content analysis methods.

Key Words: reading habits, elementary school teacher candidates, descriptive and content analysis