Effective Strategies in Teaching Reading Comprehension: A Comparative Analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean

Abstract

The fundamental objective of this article is to systematize the different activities applied in the work of teaching to increase reading comprehension, according to the guidelines of the school curricula assigned to the subject of Language and Literature, as well as the criteria applied by the authorities of the educational area. As a strategy for the student's cognitive development through reading. The analysis is based on the comparison of the elements that in educational matters have been used in students from the areas of Latin America and the Caribbean and whose countries have obtained the best results in the qualification of successes in learning, during the evaluation of the Regional Comparative Study and Explanatory (ERCE 2019), placing Peru, Brazil and Costa Rica in the first places for that year, with significant progress in educational matters in relation to previous years. The review of the system of activities that these countries have implemented, which have shown positive results in terms of reading comprehension, deserves to be analyzed, also pointing out the practices that the teacher applies in the subject to increase the skill of the topic at hand.