Knowing how to read... How to extract meaning from a text?

The S-IP-R and RG strategy

Abstract

There are several reading strategies available to extract the information considered essential after accessing a text. The bibliography on the subject (Azevedo, 2011; Benavente et al., 1996; Candeias, 2010; Delgado-Martins et al., 2000; Figueiredo, 2006; Tedesco, 2000) is unanimous in stating that, currently, we can speak of an increasingly educated, literate, but illiterate community that is incompetent or with poor skills to understand what they read.
About three decades ago, in 1992, the OECD presented evidence of what seemed to be transversal to industrialized societies: countless adults, duly educated, some of whom had completed extensive mandatory schooling, were unable to understand the meaning of a text read, in their mother tongue, and whose meaning was claimed, therefore, considered important for the performance of their professional activity.
The form of written communication, which was thought to be acquired with the generalized access to schooling, still proved to be a mode of expression to which it is important to dedicate time and rethink strategies to better improve the technique of understanding/extracting meaning from a read or heard text.