Educational Values Included in Story Collections for Fourth and Fifth Grade Students in Jordan

The study sought to identify the educational values (Cognitive, health, social, personal, national) included in story collection for fourth and fifth grade students in Jordan and their indicators. Another objective was to define the percentage of including these values based on school semester and grade level. An instrument was developed to answer the questions of the study. The sample of the study was all the population which was the story collection for fourth and fifth grade students starting from the school year 2017. These were (4) story collection distributing on (4) group for each grade level. The study findings indicated that educational values were all included in the story collection for both grade levels. Social values ranked first, with (35.5%) for fourth grade, and (40%) for fifth grade, while health values ranked last with (3%) for fourth grade, and (11.4%) for fifth grade. The study suggested some recommendations and the most important is to pay more attention to health values as they are a reflection of student’s awareness of the importance of health practices and their positive effect on their personal life and the surrounding environment.