Recreational reading as origin and purpose of the habit of reading

Abstract

This pedagogical experience, presented in the form of an article, proposes creative, playful, metacognitive, and interdiscursive processes that promote the love for reading among children in General Basic Education. From the perspective of Action Research, the qualitative paradigm and documentary and field techniques, indicators were developed that denote a lack of reading habits, coupled with a total absence of reading projects, in six educational institutions in the city of Cuenca.

Based on this situation, a novel set of resources is proposed under the title "actiLIBRO for metaREADING, interdialoguing, and expresSING". Finally, these actions lead us to the following conclusion: school teaching develops logical thinking, comprehension of written texts, identification of main ideas, cross-cutting contents, values, and connections between areas of knowledge. Likewise, the Language and Literature subject must generate knowledge of grammar, spelling, and morphosyntax of our linguistic code. But that's not all: nowadays, it is essential to train children in literary reading, who must read for pleasure and not only under school-related circumstances.