Estrategias de comprensión lectora en alumnos de educación primaria y secundaria

Resumo

Reading comprehension plays a key role in students’ learning and achievement, it is a determining factor in students’ academic and professional future success. For this reason, it is not strange the large concern of different Educational Administrations in Spain for the students’ reading comprehension competence or skill. That concern is higher because of the negative results of Spain country in reading comprehension skill in the different PISA reports in the last years. According to the difficulties in reading comprehension of Spanish students, this paper presents a global analyses or screening that allows us to identify the main difficulties and limits of Spanish students in reading comprehension. The sample comprised 639 students belong from 5th Primary Grade to 2nd Secondary Grade, of different public and semi-private (concertado) schools in León and province. All of them were tested through a diagnostic assessment of their reading comprehension level, based on construction of literal ideas, inference ideas, and macro-structure of text. We analyze and discuss the results of each grade and comparatively by grade, in relation to the different reading comprehension parameters tested, and future researches in reading comprehension assessment and instruction fields are posed