The purpose of this study is to share the data of a reading material, which is compatible with the standards of textuality, readable, legible, helpful to learning, and, differently from the existing resources in the field, has multiple endings that will enable the learner to choose according to the flow of the story and continue reading, for beginner level (A1-A2) language learners who learn Turkish as a foreign language. Following this purpose, a corpus-based story text named “Nighthawks” (Gece Kuşları) was created and the text was applied to the learners at A1, A2, and B1 levels (N: 132) by using the “one-group pretest-posttest model”, one of the weak experimental designs, and the qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the findings were carried out. These evaluations were based on the variables of gender, age, and course level. According to the findings obtained, it was observed that the text “Gece Kuşları” positively caused statistically significant changes in the reading attitudes of the learners in terms of desire (p> .004), benefit (p> .008), and anxiety (p> .021), while the learners did not develop negative opinions about the text. It was also noticed that women were statistically more successful than men in reading and comprehending the text, the age variable was not statistically significant, and the most successful groups in terms of the language level were B1, A2, and A1 learners, respectively. Consequently, it was proved that the text “Gece Kuşları” meets the textuality criteria as intended and it is a reader-friendly text which is appropriate for the levels of A1 and A2 learners as its target readers, no matter which ending (“Grey Hat” or “Red Dress”) is chosen by the reader.

Teaching Turkish as a foreign language, reading material, corpus-based vocabulary, reading attitude