Camacho Delgado, Alfredo AndrésRojas Hernández, Ligmey2015-11-202015-11-202014-06-12https://dspace.uclv.edu.cu/handle/123456789/3538This paper offers a system of reading texts and communicative tasks dealing with health education, in order to develop reading comprehension skills in senior high students and a responsible attitude towards their health care, which has been conceived through a process that included needs analysis, partial application and evaluation of a preliminary proposal through specialist criteria. The proposal responds to the demands of the senior high school which aims at achieving the integrated formation of the students in terms of their feelings, thinking and acting within the context of their school, the family and the surrounding community. It intends to make a contribution to the improvement of the teaching learning process in this level, particularly in terms of helping students become interested in reading in English and being able to interpret and summarize what they read, which proved deficient during the diagnosis stage of this research. The proposal is grounded on communicative ideas about the teaching of reading, and is substantiated on humanistic and socio-cultural views of pedagogy. The research has been conducted following these methods: the historical - logical, analysis-synthesis, the inductive-deductive, analysis of documents, Interview, survey, pedagogical test, teacher diaries and reflections and specialist criteriaen-USEste documento es Propiedad Patrimonial de la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas. Los usuarios podrán hacer uso de esta obra bajo la siguiente licencia: Creative Commons: Atribución-No Comercial-Compartir Igual 4.0 LicenseLenguas ExtranjerasInglésIdiomasHabilidades LectorasComprensión de TextosThesis