The school library, a place that stimulates the reading culture of sixth-grade students

Abstract

The school library can be seen as an essential setting for the acquisition of knowledge, which supports the educational processes of the institutions. The present document shows the results of a research study developed under the qualitative approach of action-research, to observe the reality and collect data to describe the reading habits of sixth-grade students of Institución Educativa Distrital (I.E.D) Los Naranjos School, and to identify the use of the school library. With the results, activities were proposed that encourage the reading culture and the relationship of enjoying books. Four instruments were applied to collect information: an open interview with the librarian of the institution, closed questionnaires to students, reading workshops and field diaries that were used as analysis strategies during the activities. It was concluded that students like going to the library, but do not attend the reading activities offered there, they are motivated to read mainly narrative and written text, not digitally; and this action is carried out mainly at home, because in the school library, despite the activities proposed by the bibliographic collection, it is limited and directed to children, which generates demotivation; while, the workshops with appropriate readings for the age of the chosen group and interests, give evidence of great acceptance and motivation for the oral and written word as a tool of communication and reflection of the context.