Pay attention to diversity: identification of reading difficulties in schoolchildren of first and third grades of primary education

Abstract

This work investigates the learning difficulties in reading in schoolchildren who are in the First and the Third grades of Primary Education. The main purpose was to detect reading learning difficulties in Primary Education in order to that the educational center performs a preventive intervention. The sample consisted of 109 schoolchildren aged between 6 and 10 years. For that, an empirical study was carried out in which the following tests were applied: a Global Reading Level Test (TECLE), a word reading test (PIPE), a spelling test (ORT) and two tests for evaluation of the metaphonological representations (SIL and FON). The results show that it is possible to detect reading difficulties early. From this detection, schools can perform an early intervention so that such difficulties are mitigated or remedied.

Keywords

• educación primaria
• dificultades de aprendizaje de la lectura
• atención temprana
• detección precoz
• comprensión lectora