Estrategias didácticas en el aprendizaje de la lectura en niños de Educación Básica Superior

Abstract

This study was conducted at the Upper Elementary School “San Francisco de Peleusí de Azogues” in Azogues city, province of Cañar. It aims to know the didactic strategies employed by teachers in the learning-to-read process in upper elementary school students. The methodology was based on a non-experimental cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach applying the survey as a data collection technique, and the Likert scale questionnaire was the instrument validated through Cronbach's Alpha 765. The results were analyzed through the JASPS software applied to tenth-grade students; it was evidenced that teachers make use of adequate didactic strategies for reading, their interest and attention, enhancing their vocabulary, expanding their knowledge and causing pleasure and enjoyment for reading, being indispensable to employ adequate strategies combined with the use of technological resources so that students achieve a reading habit as part of the fundamental skills within their personal, academic and professional life.