Theoretical principles and strategies for the promotion of critical reading

Abstract

This article explores theoretical principles and strategies to promote critical reading as a way to positively influence the low reading comprehension that different evaluations show about Mexicans in general and, specifically, about basic and intermediate grade students. Faced with a panorama marked by structural precariousness that inhibits critical reading, the authors examine the concepts of critical thinking and detonating experience as epistemic and experiential platforms; and multimodal contexts, the ethical reading of literary texts and horizontal methodologies as strategies of critical reading to develop more plural and open values and beliefs.