Reading Comprehension: an instrument to learn science

Abstract

In the last two decades, the community in the field of Science Education has reached consensus that the strategies of reading comprehension must play a critical role in science curriculum, because they allow bringing the process of scientific literacy and socialization of the students. However, the literature based on research suggests a theoretical framework that would be useful to the science teacher to illuminate the design and implementation of learning activities, which would have a reading comprehension of scientific texts as one of its main elements, since it is considered a learning and thinking instrument. Thus, throughout the body of this report it will develop a series of principles that underlie the teaching of reading comprehension strategies, such us, selecting, planning, explaining and molding the reading strategies in question to singular students of a particular context.