ACQUIREMENTOF READING IN CHILDREN OF THE FIRST CYCLE OF FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION IS A CHALLENGE TO TEACHERS

Abstract

The process of acquiring learning to read is a crucial basis for any educational action. Reading, understanding, interpreting, deciphering what you read are essential elements for the expansion of the critical sense, formation of a full citizenship, allowing, thus, the continuation of the inclusion and performance of the individual in society. It is noteworthy that, when children start the literacy process, they are steeped in a range of knowledge, which when used efficiently are great allies in the process of teaching and learning to read. After all, learning from what is already known, learning becomes easier and more effective. It is known that the problems related to reading in the first cycle of Elementary Education will not be solved in the short term, as it is necessary the intervention and cooperation of the various subjects who are directly or indirectly engaged in the teaching process. Hence the need for a new dimension in the educational process. Searching for new ways, new models of applying reading, modernizing methodologies according to the reality and contemporaneity of the child, providing him with an attractive, charming, involving environment that allows him to want to learn to read and that he can acquire the taste and habit for reading.