Impact of pedagogical strategies to enhance reading comprehension in highschool students

Abstract

Reading comprehension will always be fundamental for the comprehensive learning of students, with an impact
not only in the area of languages and Spanish, but in all disciplines such as mathematics, science or history, since this is how problem solving begins. In rural and marginalized contexts, as is the case of the community of Jaralillo, municipality of General Francisco Murguía, Zacatecas, Mexico, students face multiple obstacles: 
migration, school absenteeism, limited infrastructure and poor access to reading materials. This study aimed to diagnose the level of reading comprehension, implement innovative pedagogical strategies and evaluate their impact on the students of the “Emiliano Zapata” Telesecundaria School. The research was developed with a mixed approach, a mixed approach and a quasi-experimental design (Hernández Sampieri Roberto and Mendoza
Torres Crhistian Paulina, 2023), using reading comprehension tests, questionnaires and direct observation. The different results showed the low initial level of reading comprehension and the little interest in reading, while the implementation of contextualized pedagogical strategies improved the motivation, participation and reading skills of the students. The findings presented highlight the importance of adapting educational interventions to
the rural context, and also offer a model that can be applied to other  telesecundaries.