Aprender a estudiar textos en primaria: Propuestas para innovar en las prácticas de lectura de textos escolares

Abstract

Abstract: Learning to Study Texts is an innovative program that seeks to improve teaching and learning of disciplinary content by using teaching proposals based on analyzing and commenting on the language used in texts. This paper presents the bases of the program and a pilot study conducted with two teachers working in the fourth grade of elementary school who implemented the program proposals in History classes for four months. This analysis included the comparison of teaching practices involved in reading History texts before and after following the Learning to Study Texts program. It also included the description of how they changed their practices throughout the intervention. The results indicate that, with the incorporation of the program proposals, the teachers began to provide more opportunities to the students to listen, retrieve, comment on and analyze the information content of the texts. The main contribution of this study is to offer inputs for the design of a continuous teacher training program.