Asking questions” workshop to strengthen the literal reading level

Abstract

The PISA 2022 executive report reveals that Peru ranks low in reading skills among 15-year-olds, with scores below the OECD average and at the bottom compared to other countries assessed. Despite some improvements in Latin America, Peru faces significant challenges, such as teaching quality, insufficient educational resources, regional inequalities, socioeconomic factors, outdated pedagogical methodologies, lack of evaluation and monitoring, lack of interest in reading, and school infrastructure problems. In one educational institution in Tarma, reading comprehension performance is particularly poor, with only 40% of students responding correctly to literal questions and 5% to critical questions. In response, the “Asking questions” workshop has been designed with the objective of strengthening the literal level of reading in first year secondary school students. The study is qualitative, since the teachers applied the “Asking” workshop with the following steps: 1) Development of the workshop, 2) Evaluation of Learning Achievement. The workshop allowed the elaboration of questions to evaluate: 1) Explicit identification of the text, 2) Comprehension of literal meanings, 3) Text structure, 4) Memorization of textual data and 5) Localization of specific details. For the formulation of questions, the story “Satu” by Jean D'Carval was taken into account. The effectiveness of the workshop “asking” presents its proposal.