Reading Comprehension Skills In Elementary School Students From Sucre, Colombia

Abstract

The objective of present study was to characterize reading comprehension in a sample of elementary school children in Sincelejo, Sucre. The project was framed under a quantitative approach; it is a non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive study. In compliance with the inclusion and exclusion criteria established in the study, a sample of 86 children in the third and fourth grades of primary school, a school stage in which children of these ages (8 and 9 years old) have developed their reading skills with a certain maturity degree was selected. The results show that most of the study population obtained scores below the mean in the semantic skills of text comprehension and sentence comprehension, with third graders showing the greatest difficulties in the two modalities evaluated.