摘要：AbstractText books use a lot of visual mat erials to support teaching. In many cases student text books include attractiveillustrations more for selling purposes. To support the educational design of student text books illustrations, photos and other visual materials that focus on student learning should be included in the book. When we discuss student text book illustrations as being support ivein the learning process, several aut hors (Holliday, 1990; Molit or et al., 1989) state the importance of illustrative material in text books as the source for knowledge acquisition, which cont ributes to the interactive process bet ween the learner and the teaching material.The aim of the present study was to investigat e the design of 6th grade science text books, conducting group interviews and t o make recommendations for the designers. During the interviews students’ opinions were st udied in regards t o how they interpret different visual solutions – photos, pictures, drawings and schemes. The results showed that students prefer big format titles, large and clear illustrations. They also prefer if the text is referring directly to the illustration, it enables to concent rate and find necessary information in the picture. Tables and schemes help to summarize the text and they also bring out the most important details. Students would like t o have more test s and experiments in the books, so that they can act ivate the learning process and offer more excit ement and motivation during the lessons.
