A look to the literacy

Abstract

This paper is a result of a research conducted at Institución Educativa Departamental Rural El Mortiño, a public school located in the municipality of Cogua-Cundinamarca, 7th kilometer Zipaquirá-Nemocón highway. This research arose after the researchers performed a diagnosis, and observed that the thirteen
first-grade students had a low achievement in Language, evident in difficulties related to spelling; letter sizing, alignment and spacing; writing their name, words and sentences; reading comprehension, consonant/ vowel awareness, reading, etc. The diagnosis worked as the first step in order to develop strategies
so that students could improve their reading and writing skills through sensory activities, stimulating their learning abilities at their own pace. Some of the activities performed were: writing their name, vowels, consonants, and syllables; synonyms and antonyms, picture reading, text comprehension, oral
tradition, and story-writing. They contributed to optimize the reading and writing acquisition and mastering process, on the grounds of meaningful learning.