The professional sufficiency report "The reading of stories as a didactic strategy to improve _x000D_ reading comprehension in secondary school students" theoretically and pedagogically _x000D_ supports a learning experience of the Communication Area, placing it, in addition, in the line _x000D_ drawn up by the Ministry of Education, without neglecting the considerations of the context _x000D_ in which the student operates._x000D_ Considering the importance of the educational process in the construction of the knowledge _x000D_ that people need for their personal development and that of society, within the curricular _x000D_ framework by competencies, as well as by a context in which competitiveness is one of the _x000D_ elements most important for personal success, reading constitutes an element that not only _x000D_ develops the cognitive structures of students, by allowing them access...