In this study, a reading culture scale was developed that can be used in determining the reading cultures of teacher candidates who study in education faculties. When looking at the literature, the attitudes about reading, habit, perception, self-efficacy and so on. It was seen that there were scales measuring the concepts but not a scale that could measure reading culture. For this reason, it was the aim of this study to develop a 5-point likert type measurement instrument for describing and measuring reading cultures and to demonstrate the validity and reliability studies of this tool. Firstly, 49 items prepared by researchers were presented to expert opinion. Expert opinions and a preliminary 51- item scale draft were applied to 379 teacher canditates in different departments of a faculty of a state university and validity and reliability studies were carried out. Statistical package program was used for analysis of data in the study. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value of your scale is .89 and Bartlett's Sphericity Test value [χ2 = 4221,390; Df = 435, p <.000]. Factor analysis was performed after the appropriateness of these measures to the factor analysis was determined. As a result of the factor analysis, a 5-point likert type scale of 30 items was developed by eliminating the items with low factor values. Scope validity of the scale was determined by taking the expert opinions of 13 academicians and 5 Turkish teachers. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to determine the relationship between the sum of the items in the scale and the factors. The Cronbach's Alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be .90. It can be said that a valid and reliable scale is obtained as the result of the study in the direction of these findings. The scale called the “Reading Culture Scale” (RCS) was determined to be a valid and reliable instrument that could be used to measure reading cultures of groups of university-levels students and different professions.