TELL ME HOW YOU READ AND I WILL TELL YOU HOW MUCH YOU LEARN: WHAT DOES RESEARCH BRING TO THE TEACHING OF READING?

Abstract

It is widely recognized and accepted that reading plays a fundamental role in the learning process and in academic progress, since it allows access to culture and knowledge, as well as contributing to personal, social and intellectual development. The teaching of reading is a slow and gradual process that starts in early childhood education and develops throughout basic education, in a continuum in which the student moves from "learning to read" to "reading to learn". The aim of this article is to select and synthesize the aspects that have been shown to be effective in the learning of reading so that, in this way, schools can make decisions based on research for better planning of their teaching. All the rationale developed may be of use to education inspectors in their essential advisory role aimed at improving learning that is so crucial to educational progress and school success.