Resumen en inglés

The purpose of this research project was to analyze the effectiveness of a program of pedagogical strategies of sociocultural orientation in the critical reading skills of 9th grade students of the Aguas Negras Educational Institution. Methodologically, the research is qualitative of the Action Research type, which provided the possibility of describing the activities carried out in the classroom, with the aim of identifying action strategies, implemented and accepted for reflection, observation and change of educational practices. Likewise, the opinion of the participants and the factors that influenced their low level of reading comprehension were interpreted, in order to then design a didactic intervention program that contributed to the advancement of the reading process, which incorporated the sociocultural contexts external to the classroom in order to show the contribution that they make in terms of the transformation and improvement of reading comprehension. The results obtained in the application of said intervention, allowed to establish that the didactic sequence based on a program of pedagogical strategies of sociocultural orientation, contributed to the improvement of reading comprehension in a significant percentage, because the students can know, understand and identify the elements of the enunciation situation. Likewise, they learned to take a critical stance towards the texts read and built the various discursive strategies that can exist in a text.