READING COMPREHENSION AS A STRATEGY FOR THE ACQUISITION COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN 7TH GRADE. GRADE SCHOOL PROFESSOR JULIÁN GUERRERO, BONAO, PERIOD 2021-2022

Communicative competence plays a fundamental role as a basis for learning in other curricular areas.The Educational System in our country applies reading comprehension as a reference framework in the evaluations that are carried out nationally and internationally in the Spanish Language, and the results of these evaluations are not the best.The comprehension of oral and written texts is the individual's ability to understand, analyze and infer based what he/ she reads or hears.The objective of this research is to implement reading strategies for the development of communicative skills in 7th grade, Prof. Julin Guerrero school, period 2021-2022.The methodology applied is Action Research, with a qualitative approach, cross-sectional and under the Kemmis model.The population consisted of 30 students with a modal age of 13 and 14 years.The data were collected through reflective, diariesvideos, field, among others, and showed that the students had difficulty comprehending notesoral and written texts and their level reading ranged from comprehension level 1 (literal level) to slightly level 2 (simple inferential level).After the application of reading comprehension strategies, students were able to advance to the second level of comprehension (critical inferential level) and more than 85% have the ability to understand all three levels of comprehension.The positive impact of the application of such strategy was of more than 90% in terms of the inclusion of the moments of reading, analysis, interpretation and inferences made after reading.It was concluded that the application of adequate strategies for reading comprehension had an impact on the development of the students' communicative competence, especially reading comprehension.