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Understanding Reading is just a symptom, not disease

know that a problem in our country is reading, the task undertaken by State agencies or individuals, such as Continental Bank, have taken to address the problem by investing huge amounts training resource for teachers and texts and strategies for developing reading comprehension, which, I fear, have been, for the most part, lost resources.

The approach has been a source error, that a child does not understand what you read is a symptom, not the disease. It is as if tomorrow 5 million children had fever and elevated temperature combatiéramos that cold baths and training to parents and teachers on how to bathe with cold water and how to avoid them cry when we do and what we say to comfort them.

But fever is a symptom, the next day to take it again if we do not attack the disease.

And the disease is obvious: children do not understand what they read because they never read. And above all, at that torture associate reading boring textbooks to memorize and then vomit in the following discussion of a memory that has been enforced and has not received any attraction except a note that means nothing.

The ability to understand what read is installed in our brains as the ability to make kicks or dominated: if you can not do 100 kicks, not that it is gross, they just never practiced. But if you offer to make 200 soles 3000 kicks in 5 months, most likely tomorrow we see on the roof of his house training like crazy, practicing to develop these skills and practice skills that will allow you to fine tune.

The problem of reading comprehension in Peru is a problem of access to books and reading. The children have no books, no libraries and adults living with no reading habit, not everyday reading practices.

The work accomplished since the project has been primarily Recreation to create social conditions for access to a free reading, enjoyable, pleasant and appropriate. The work has paid off, with the National Reading Plan republic newspaper has made that every school in Peru had the responsibility to lead their children into reading.

The group's Republic joined the task last year and has contributed its share in Peru, a revolution deaf and silent, the fruits we shall see in 20 years.

That revolution is that of thousands of awakening young minds to the joy of reading, which is the door key by which a human being inserted into the cultural, scientific, economic and social time.

A society that does not read books in the hands of children is doomed to poverty.

WECG