Reading experiences with young people from Huatusco municipality, Veracruz, México

Abstract

According to Mexico’s reality and its poor comprehension levels in agreement with the index of Reading results which are the reasons of why there is a low reading comprehension rate in all the grade levels, as an example, it is considered the possibility of create a Reading circle and an expression workshop for the young people of the Rural High School of Tlamacota, at the Huatusco municipality, Veracruz.

The main objective of this project is to support the development of the reading habit and the improvement of the reading comprehension through non-mandatory literary texts. These, in relation to other texts, arts and technologies, induce some sense of joy in the readers during their reading reception and the pleasure of recreating their writings.The results of the intervention present the necessity of innovate to look for a way to foment a meaningful reading experience with the young people; they also come up with the construction of new systems that would involve the commitment and action of the society and governmental institutions.