Nowadays, with the new information and communication technologies, it is easier for us through various programs to do different types of reading, but unfortunately there are young people who instead of taking advantage of these readings that for their age seem boring and unprofitable, teenagers only use the new technologies for games that sometimes block their thoughts and therefore their knowledge.
Key words: reading, learning, adolescent, teaching
Nowadays, with the new information and communication technology, we are able to make various types of reading through various programs, but unfortunately there are young people who, instead of taking advantage of these readings that seem boring and unprofitable for their age, Technologies for games that sometimes block their thoughts and so many knowledge.
Keywords: reading, learning, teenager, teaching
Reading is a communication habit that allows developing the cognitive and interactive thoughts of any reader, reading allows building new knowledge with ease.
According to Gómez Palacio (1992), reading is centered on "Knowing how to read, making a written text read adequately by a person, that is, knowing how to decipher".
Nowadays, electronic media involve teenagers in any activity except reading, which is important to improve their learning and sustain communication with any person.
High school teachers often complain that adolescents do not know how to read, but we do nothing. This problem is a real concern that at the high school level a student does not know how to read correctly, so we have to solve this conflict, using reading as a daily activity.
When adolescents are asked how many books they have read, some answer that 10 in 16 years, others that only 2 are not enough to improve their reading, likewise some students show disinterest in reading, indicating that they do not have time or that they only read to accredit a subject.
The lack of interest in reading in young people sometimes has to do with the environment in which they live, because they do not know the value of the letters in a book and that this set of letters, phrases and concepts can help them to improve the activities they perform daily. Not knowing how to read has consequences in learning such as poor spelling, lack of culture and loss of communication skills.
Smith (1989) "reading is the activity by which a reader constructs meaning from a process of cognitive elaboration".
It is important for teenagers to read a book at least once a month as this activity allows them to easily stimulate their imagination and brain function, as well as help teenagers gain a better vocabulary, develop their brain to better understand the plots of various lines and characters.
Young people have to be attracted to a book to take the time to read and realize that reading is a peaceful activity that can calm their stress and anxiety, because nowadays it is said that children and young people suffer from these illnesses.
The lack of reading skills in an adolescent can influence poor school performance due to lack of interest in school research, poor vocabulary, difficulty in understanding and analyzing texts and especially not understanding when someone explains a certain topic, this sometimes causes students to have low self-esteem and their learning is very low so there are several casualties in the upper secondary level.
In the teaching-learning process, reading is a fundamental activity to be able to easily understand each of the topics developed in each subject, thus improving the learning of each student. Sometimes there are students who do not understand what to read and it is difficult for them to build their knowledge autonomously, so it is important to indicate what Burón (1996) indicates about Metacognition "The knowledge of the different mental operations that promote comprehension and to know how, when and for what purpose we should use them".
As teachers we have to use reading as a teaching and learning strategy, because when reading the brain cells are stimulated and cognitive thinking is better developed, that is, it increases the capacity of the mind so that students can increase their ability of reading comprehension, to recognize the main idea of a topic, to know how to interpret the main idea of the author, this will help to improve the learning of students.
In the classroom we should have the students read and teach them to understand what they are reading, asking them to explain in their own words what they understood from the reading. If we do this on a daily basis, we will have students who will learn with ease, leaving memorization behind.
Reading faces great competition, because there are distractions that make teenagers underestimate the importance of this activity that will help them acquire agility in their thinking.
Reading, as well as writing, are learning tools at the high school level because what students use most to learn are summaries, concept maps, synoptic tables, among others.
Adolescents should do a previous reading of the topics that will be developed in all subjects, this is a basis for students to better understand what the teacher is teaching and can autonomously build their knowledge and knowledge.
If our high school students read in a meaningful way there is a reciprocal communication between the text and the student, to achieve this it must be read clearly and respecting all the rules of reading, it is important that as teachers motivate students to read and encourage the habit of reading in the classroom which will improve the teaching-learning process.
Reading is a habit that can improve the social and human conditions of any reader, reading allows to think with reflection and develop the cognitive aspects of the brain which helps to exercise all the cells and be always active for any activity that is performed in daily life.
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