Abstract:
Reading comprehension is quite important in the development of language learning
acquisition because it is the basis of the interpretation, regardless of its extension,
this skill is applied not only at the moment of reading but also when students need
to study and incorporate new knowledge, being an exercise that people perform
even in a constant and automated way. Graphic organizers are useful strategies for
students because not only include words but also visual images becoming very
effective for students. “Didactic Graphic Organizers to Enhance Reading
Comprehension Skills in Students of Eight Grade at Unidad Educativa “Jorge
Barek”, La Libertad, Santa Elena Province, 2016-2017” has the purpose of helping
teachers through several readings with didactic graphic organizers in order to
include them in their everyday classes; In addition, this research is intended to
demonstrate that teachers also have the needed imagination to design readings able
to help students in the improvement of this necessary skill which is reading
comprehension.
The methodology applied in the present work was through surveys directed to
students in order to gather the necessary data, it was also important to interview
specialist professors from YACHAY University of Experimental Technological
Research and from a professor of Casa Grande University, in order to get
information that may help to this research.