Reading comprehension skills: your teaching and your assessment through Provinha Brasil

LEAL, TELMA FERRAZ; MORAIS, ARTUR GOMES DE; PESSOA, ANA CLÁUDIA RODRIGUES GONÇALVES; NASCIMENTO, JULLIANE CAMPELO DO

doi:10.1590/S1413-24782017226810

TELMA FERRAZ LEAL

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Telma Ferraz Leal has a doctorate in psicology from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is a professor at the same institution. E-mail: tfleal@terra.com.br

ARTUR GOMES DE MORAIS

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

Artur Gomes de Morais has a doctorate in psicology from the Universidad de Barcelona (Espanha). She is professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). E-mail: agmorais@uol.com.br

ANA CLÁUDIA RODRIGUES GONÇALVES PESSOA

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

Ana Cláudia Rodrigues Gonçalves Pessoa has a doctorate in education from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is a professor at the same institution. E-mail: aclaudiapessoa@gmail.com

JULLIANE CAMPELO DO NASCIMENTO

Instituto Federal da Bahia, Seabra, PE, Brazil

Julliane Campelo do Nascimento has a graduated in education from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is a professor at the Instituto Federal da Bahia (IFBA). E-mail: julliane.campelo@hotmail.com

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Telma Ferraz Leal has a doctorate in psicology from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is a professor at the same institution.

E-mail: tfleal@terra.com.br

Artur Gomes de Morais has a doctorate in psicology from the Universidad de Barcelona (Espanha). She is professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

E-mail: agmorais@uol.com.br

Ana Cláudia Rodrigues Gonçalves Pessoa has a doctorate in education from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is a professor at the same institution.

E-mail: aclaudiapessoa@gmail.com

Julliane Campelo do Nascimento has a graduated in education from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is a professor at the Instituto Federal da Bahia (IFBA).

E-mail: julliane.campelo@hotmail.com

Descriptor	First Test		Final Test
Descriptor	Question	Percentage of children who answered correctly	Question	Percentage of children who answered correctly
Purpose of the Text	15	59	17	85
Purpose of the Text	23	55	21	43
Locating Information	18	60	23	70
Locating Information	20	53	24	48
Identifying the Subject of the Text	21	69	19	61
Identifying the Subject of the Text	24	45	22	69
Developing an Inference	19	53	20	58
Developing an Inference	22	43	---	--

Municipality	Class	First Test (%)	Final Test (%)	Difference between the percentages (final – initial)
Municipality A	01	26	15	-11
	02	0	36	36
	03	31	54	23
	04	10	37	27
Municipality B	05	10	30	20
	06	25	37	12
	07	10	20	10
	08	16	36	20
Municipality C	09	40	75	35
	10	76	80	04
	11	35	25	– 10

Types of Activities	Teachers / classes
Types of Activities	1	2	9	10
Text Reading by the Teacher	7	2	4	6
Collective Text Reading	2	2	-	2
Text Reading by the student	1	2	3	5
Silent Reading	2	-	2	1
Total	12	06	09	14

Teacher 1
“At 1:55 pm, the teacher reads a poem (…). After finishing the reading, at 2:05 pm, she hands out an activity focused on the concepts of male and female. Then she corrects it on the board.

Male	Female

O menino [The boy] O gato [The male cat] O sapo [The male frog]	A menina [The girl] A gata [The female cat] A sapa [The female frog]

At the end of the explanation, the teacher asks if pinto [chick] (a word from the text) is male or female. The children answer that it is female. She explains again that “o menino” is male and “a menina” is female. Then, the children correct themselves, saying that pinto is male because it is a boy. Then, everybody laughed and were amused at the fact they had initially called the pinto a girl. At 2:45 pm, the teacher asked the gender of the other words in the text. (Is limão [lemon] male or female? And sol [sun]? And verão [summer]?). After this conversation, the teacher explains the second question of the activity. She > says that everybody will have to find the female words.”

[1] ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Telma Ferraz Leal has a doctorate in psicology from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is a professor at the same institution.

E-mail: tfleal@terra.com.br

Brasil

Brasil

Reading comprehension skills: your teaching and your assessment through Provinha Brasil

ABSTRACT