Hábitos de lectura: géneros y estrategias de lectura utilizadas por los estudiantes de séptimo grado de Educación Básica en la ciudad de Cuenca, periodo septiembre 2022- febrero 2023

Abstract

Reading is the road to knowledge and freedom and implies the active participation of mind. The present research work has the goal to identify the kind of texts and main strategies which students of seventh year of basic education use. Its focus is quantitative, of descriptive reach and transversal kind. The study was performed during the period 2022-2023 in the Padre Juan Bautista Aguirre Basic Education School, Checa Educational Institution, and Chiquintad Educational Institution, with a total of 140 students. The technique to recollect information was a survey and the research tool used was the Reading Metacognitive Strategies Inventory. Among the found research information was that the majority of children like to read daily, the literary genders preferred are, tales, novels, poetry; their favorite topics are fantasy, love, and adventure. Among the strategies which they use are preview the whole text to skim the content, make questions about the written typescript, read back to find keywords, underline information from the text, and seek and search for more information. In the same way, the main difficulty they mention is the vocabulary.