Aplicacion del metodo invariante para la formacion de la lectura en niños entre 7 y 8 años con dificultades lectoras. fase ii.

The present study aims to prove the efficacy of the “Metodo invariante para la formacion de la lectura (Invariant Method for Reading acquisition)”, developed to enhance the reading abilities of children diagnosed with poor reading skills, after finishing the program and 6 months later. Sixty children, seven to eight years old, from low socioeconomic status, and that attend first to second grade in schools of Cali (Colombia) would participate in this research. Thirty of these children underperformed in measures used by the school to assess the reading skills of their students according to governmental standards, while the remaining children exhibit appropriate reading abilities according to the aforementioned parameters. all children will be evaluated with two measures of reading skills, Habilidades Metalinguisticas y Lectura from the scale Evaluacion Neuropsicologica Infantil (ENI) and the reading subtest of the exito escolar test. Children with a low performance will attend the “Metodo invariante para la formacion de la lectura” intervention program, forming the experimental group. It will be compared with a good reader control group of 30 children matched by age, sex, grade, intellectual level, and socio-economic status. It is expected to find that the experimental group improves their reading abilities with regard to the reader control group immediately after finishing the intervention program as well as 6 months later.