In our contemporary society which humanistic emotions are corruptingdue to increase in technological advances, there is a need for effective valueeducation to train persons who are honest ambitious, hardworking andcapable of empathy, who have respect for each other without losing feelings oflove and tolerance, who give very importance to science and rationalism.Schools are social institutions which enable the continuity of society bytransmission of national and universal values. The course textbooks, whichare an indispensable part of education process, have an important role in thetransmission of values. Students gain national and universal values throughthe literary works in course textbooks which are established by benefitingfrom the richness of mother tongue and its vocabulary. The purpose of thisstudy is to determine which national and universal values are deliveredthrough the reading texts of Primary Education 6th, 7th and 8th gradeTurkish textbooks, and to determine how these values are distributed at 6th,7th and 8th grade Turkish textbooks. This study used document analysismethod which is a qualitative research method. The sample of the survey isestablished of 6th, 7th and 8th grade Turkish textbooks which are publishedby National Education Ministry (MEB). By examining reading texts in thetextbooks according to “Values Assessment Form (VAF)”, it is tried todetermine which national and universal values are delivered through texts. Inthis study, it is found that, texts at MEB 6th, 7th and 8th grade Turkishtextbooks did not deliver values at the desired level and value transmission ismore intense at 6th grade and has been reduced at 7th and 8th grades.