Profile of reading accuracy acquisition of students from elementary school.

Aparecido José Couto Soares,Haydée Fiszbein Wertzner,Maria Silvia Cárnio

doi:10.1590/2317-1782/20152014193

Abstract

To characterize the profile of reading accuracy acquisition of children from the elementary school, considering word extension and syllabic structure. This study counted on 29 children from the third grade and 28 from the fourth grade of the Brazilian elementary school, with mean age of 8:5 and 9:3 years, respectively, who did not present learning disorders. All participants underwent oral reading assessment through texts according to each school level. The texts were analyzed considering the range of word length and syllabic structure. The performance of the students was analyzed according to the accuracy percentage concerning word length and syllabic structure. All data underwent statistical analysis. We noticed that the variability in the percentage increased due to the number of syllables, with more incidences of error in students from the third year. Furthermore, data pointed out greater accuracy of students from the fourth year with regard to word length and syllabic structure. Analysis of variance with repeated measures indicated interaction effect between both groups and the studied variables. This study showed evidence that word length is a strong factor to reading accuracy acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese. In addition, words with syllabic structure different from the pattern commonly seen in the Portuguese language are more difficult to be read by children of lower schooling levels.

Highlights

Reading is a complex ability consisting of multiple interdependent processes and it involves the integration of different linguistic-cognitive abilities[1,2,3]
This is an important skill that sets the development trajectory of the individual because it enables them to widen their knowledge of the world and vocabulary, once that, in nowadays society, great part of the information is acquired through reading, whether that is on the Internet or through apps on different electronic devices
This means that the differences between the types of words depend on the group (Table 3) and that the variation between groups depends on the extension of the word (Table 4)

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Introduction

Reading is a complex ability consisting of multiple interdependent processes and it involves the integration of different linguistic-cognitive abilities[1,2,3]. For Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there are some proposals on evaluation and analysis criteria of reading accuracy that consider the amount of words read correctly and the amount of words read correctly per minute[5,11,12]. In these proposals[5,11,12], the analysis criteria are based on orthographic coding rules[13]

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