Cognitive skills for the improvement of reading comprehension through collaborative strategies

Abstract

The research project was carried out to improve the reading comprehension of fourth grade students of an educational institution in the municipality of Sonsón, the formative processes led to a good social, affective and cognitive development, worked from the principle of collaborative learning that favored basic skills, in turn contributed to the change of new transformations in the learning spaces where personal growth and integral development were contributed, implementing the Participatory Action Research Method, under the qualitative paradigm, with this method strategies were used that contributed to the improvement of actions within the school classroom positively in the teaching-learning process.  The research focused on the analysis of different manifestations that led to modify the quality of learning, to achieve a deeper understanding of the problem, while opening new pedagogical, methodological and didactic strategies, used techniques and tools among others that allowed to deepen the study, one of these was the design of the booklet "let's travel to the mysterious world of narrative texts", which allowed students to understand, justify and express in their own words what was read, arguing with narrative texts the learning acquired in the development of the booklet; Based on these results, it is now known that comprehensive reading and collaborative work are a great tool that allows continuous learning, develops communicative strategies with a good progress of cognitive skills in students.