This research project shows the work carried out at the Jose Maria Carbonell Educational Institution of the municipality of San Antonio Tolima, with students of the second grade B. Its objective was to develop reading comprehension levels in the area of Social Sciences in students. This process was based on theoretical conceptions of Sole (1992), Marquez, Sarda and Samarth (2006), Pinzas (1999) and Smith (1989), Daniel Cassany (2006). The study was a qualitative research-descriptive in which He analyzed the evolution of students in the levels of literal reading, inference and critical.