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The Influence of the Type

of Reading on the Motivation of Fifth Grade
Students at Dulce Corazon de Maria School
of Villa de Leyva, Boyacá Sofía Ramos Castro

Sramoscastro619@gmail.com
Languages Department,
Abstract Dulce Corazón de María School
Villa de Leyva, Boyacá

Reading has a very important role in the school development of
children providing advantages such as the acquisition of new
concepts, understanding of easy and difficult lexicon, analyze, know lexicon helps in all academic life.
development of their imagination, memory, analysis,
development of their personality, formation of values, listening MATERIALS AND METHODS
and critical thinking as well as a child is growing it is good to
introduce new strategies for their motivation towards reading This research project has a mixed approach, that is, it contains
more in this current situation of pandemic by the coronavirus both a qualitative and quantitative approach. It is about
because it generated a great change in the lives of all but reading analyzing the behavior of fifth grade children at Dulce Corazón
cannot be left aside more for a child was also shown in the de María School, Villa de Leyva, when it comes to reading,
research project that through general interest reading children knowing what they like, what they don't like and what they have
were getting more information, more lessons and a better been taught when they grow up, what they know, what stresses
attitude was noted so this article is shaped by the reading them and above all what motivates them in an action-research
interests of children so that their interest in reading does not that allows them to improve children's reading practice and
fall. comprehension, since the problem was that they didn't know
Keywords: Reading, motivation, type of reading, literature, what kind of reading children like in a pandemic, methods,
quarantine, pandemic, coronavirus. strategies, surveys, reading activities, audio books, readings
with complex lexicon, explanatory videos, dynamic
Resumen presentations, teachings to know the genre that motivated them
to read and finally check if these strategies worked to
La lectura tiene un papel muy importante en el desarrollo understand which literary genre they liked the most, gave them
escolar de los niños proporcionando ventajas como la good energy, good attitude and good mood also to make children
adquisición de nuevos conceptos, entendimiento de léxico fácil understand that reading is fundamental in academic life. The
como difícil, desarrollo de su imaginación, memoria, análisis, method of direct observation was used, which consisted of
desarrollo de su personalidad, formación de valores, escucha y collecting data by observing the children's evolution in their
pensamiento crítico así mismo conforme a que un niño va moods without the need to intervene in these moods, since the
creciendo es bueno introducir nuevas estrategias para su data would not be valid.
motivación hacia la lectura más en esta situación actual de
pandemia por el coronavirus ya que genero un gran cambia en la
vida de todos pero la lectura no se puede dejar a un lado más
para un niño también se demostró en el proyecto de
investigación que mediante lecturas de interés general los niños
iban obteniendo más información, más enseñanzas y se notaba
una mejor actitud por eso este artículo está conformado por los
interés de lectura de los niños para que no recaiga su interés en
la lectura.
Palabras claves: Lectura, motivación, tipo de lecturas,
literatura, cuarentena, pandemia, coronavirus.

Introduction

This article talks about the problem of the lack of reading in Results
children and why they are not motivated at the time of reading
since nowadays children do not usually have a good attitude In this research project it was found that most fifth grade
when it comes to reading activities because they are bored, they children liked to read in the afternoon, especially in their free
are lazy to read long stories, they do not understand their time, and that the genre that motivated them was adventure
lexicon or simply do not have the necessary motivation to read followed by fantasy and comedy, which helped them to do the
with good humor. It is also an essential complement to acquire a activities with a good attitude.
good education, to form themselves culturally, increase
vocabulary, add confidence and imagination, reduce stress,
develop memory, thinking, improve sleep, improve
concentration, develop intelligence and critical thinking also
was chosen the fifth grade population because from 9 years to 10
years it is possible to encourage reading, it is easier to teach
them dynamics or strategies to love reading, it is easy to ask
them to read a text in a given time making as few mistakes as
possible, reading serves as a model for children to learn to
intone, make inflections in the voice and gain accuracy, train
reading skills in children and improve their fluency and give
them to understand that knowing how to read, understand,

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