The effects of the RELATo-BRAZIL Intervention Program in early-grade readers: outcomes of a pilot study

Blasi, Helena Ferro; Deschamps, Luciane Mari; Veiga, Renata Maykot; Fermino, Ester Martins

doi:10.1590/1982-0216/20242617523

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES • Rev. CEFAC 26 (1) • 2024 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0216/20242617523 copy

The effects of the RELATo-BRAZIL Intervention Program in early-grade readers: outcomes of a pilot study

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

ABSTRACT

Purpose:

to carry out a pilot study applying the Reading and Language Together - Brazil program (RELATo-Brazil), targeting the development of reading and oral language abilities, aiming to improve phonological awareness skills and vocabulary knowledge in the school context.

Methods:

9 children of both genders, aged between 8 and 10, enrolled in the second year of elementary school at a private school in the city of Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, joined in the study. The program was applied within three phases: Phase 1 - pre-intervention, with reading and vocabulary assessment tests; Phase 2 - intervention with sessions of different types, A, B, C and Phase 3 - post-intervention, which consisted of the subjects' reassessment, using the same tests applied in Phase 1. The data were stored in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and exported for statistical analysis in the IBM SPSS software, the 25^th version. The significance level considered was p ≤ 0.05.

Results:

following 21 intervention sessions, a better performance among the participants was observed when comparing the results of the pre-intervention and post-intervention phases. There is a statistically considerable difference in the percentage distributions of the conceptual vocabulary fields for Furniture and utensils (p=0.028), Places (p=0.009) and Shapes and colors (p=0.047). The reading rate did not show a statistical difference, but the children performed better in reading time and accuracy after the intervention.

Conclusion:

the data suggest that training in phoneme awareness and oral language and linking them in the context of authentic book reading are effective strategies for improving both reading and oral language skills.

Keywords:
Reading; Education; Early Intervention, Educational; Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Sessions/Stages	Activities in each session
Session A: • Active listening • Vocabulary instruction • Oral narratives • Plenary	• Reading the book aloud, comprehension activity and interpretation of the story read. • Explicit and interactive teaching of three words from the book used in multiple contexts. • Playful activities at the semantic, phonemic and/or rhyme level.
Session B • Review of the story read in session A • Vocabulary instruction • Oral narratives • Plenary	• Rereading, retelling of the book’s history and explicit and interactive teaching, used in multiple contexts of two new words from the book read. • Playful activities at the semantic, phonemic and/or rhyme level.
Session C • Review of the story read in sessions A and B • Vocabulary review • Oral narratives • Plenary	Rereading, retelling of new outcomes for the story, resumption of the five words studied in the previous sessions. • Playful activities at the semantic, phonemic and/or rhyme level. • Oral reading and vocabulary consolidation.

Subtests	Pre-intervention				Post-intervention				P-value
Subtests	Mean (CI95%)	SD	Median	Mín - Max	Mean (CI95%)	SD	Median	Mín - Max	P-value
KA	22.9 (22.6-23.1)	0.3	23	22-23	23 (23-23)	0	23	23-23	0.317^a
RP	9 (5.8-12.2)	4.1	7	4-14	11.9 (9.2-14.6)	3.5	12	5-17	0.137^a
RI	17.4 (15.9-19.0)	2.0	18	14-20	19.4 (18.8-20.1)	0.9	20	18-20	0.028^a
SS	20.9 (20.6-21.1)	0.3	21	20- 21	21	0.0	21	21-21	0.317^a
PWP	20.8 (19.6-21.9)	1.5	21	18- 22	21 (19.8-22.2)	1.9	22	18-22	0.760^b
PS	4.2 (0.70-7.7)	4.6	2	0-15	12.8 (8.5-17.0)	5.5	13	0-18	0.018^a
AF	7.3 (1.1-13.6)	8.1	3	0-18	13.7 (9.4-17.9)	5.6	15	0-19	0.012^a
IIP	15.1 (10.6-19.6)	5.9	18	6-21	19.3 (17.6-21.1)	2.3	20	15-21	0.023^a
PWM	22.9 (17.5-28.3)	7.0	22	16-40	21.4 (19.3-23.6)	28	23	16-24	0903^a
FAN	30.6 (25.0-36.1)	7.2	27	23-43	27.0 (24.4-29.6)	3.3	26	22-32	0.230^b
SR	10.7 (10.3-11.1)	0.5	11	10-11	11	0.0	11	11-11	0.083^a
RPW	33.1 (30.2-36.0)	3.8	34	26-39	35.7 (33-38.3)	3.5	37	30-40	0.008^b
ACS	16 (13.5-18.5)	3.2	15	12-20	14 (12.7-15.3)	1.7	15	11-16	0.118^b

Conceptual fields of the test		Pre-intervention				Post-intervention				P-value
Conceptual fields of the test		Mean (CI95%)	SD	Median	Min - Max	Mean (IC95%)	SD	Median	Mín - Max	P-value
DCW%	Clothing	74.4 (66.7-82.2)	10.1	80.0	60-90	82.2 (72.2-92.2)	13	90	60-100	0.065^b
	Animals	91.1 (83.9-98.4)	9.4	93.3	73.3-100	94.8 (90.5-99.1)	5.6	93.3	86.7-100	0.066^a
	Food	80.0 (72.3-87.7)	10	80	60-93.3	84.4 (74.2-94.7)	13.3	86.7	53.3-93.3	0.012^a
	Means of transport	87.9 (82.9-92.8)	6.4	90.9	72.7-90.9	89.9 (87.6-92.2)	3	90.9	81.8-90.9	0.414^a
	Furniture and utensils	77.3 (70.5-84.1)	8.9	75	66.7-91.8	86.1 (80.8-91.4)	6.9	87.5	70.8-95.8	0.026^b
	Professions	63.3 (57.9-68.8)	7.1	60	50-70	75.6 (66.9-84.2)	11.3	80	60-90	0.026^a
	Places	63.0 (55-70.9)	10.3	66.7	50-83.3	76.9 (67.9-85.8)	11.6	83.3	58.3-91.7	0.024^b
	Shapes and colors	82.2 (70.8-93.6)	14.8	90	60-100	91.1 (85.1-97.1)	7.8	90	80-100	0.104^b
	Toys and musical instruments	64.6 (54.5-74.8)	13.2	63.6	45.5-81.8	71.7 (63.6-79.9)	10.6	72.7	54.5-90.9	0.174^b
ND%	Clothing	0	0	0	0-0	0	0	0	0-0	-
	Animals	0	0.	0	0-0	0	0	0	0-0	-
	Food	0.7 (1.0-2.4)	2.2	0	0-6.7	0	0	0	0-0	0.317^a
	Means of transport	0	0	0	0-0	0	0	0	0-0	-
	Furniture and utensils	2.8 (0.5-5)	2.9	4.2	0-8.3	0.9 (1.2-3.1)	2.8	0	0-8.3	0.066^a
	Professions	2.2 (2.9-7.3)	6.7	0	0-20	1.1 (1.5-3.7)	3.3	0	0-10.0	0.655^a
	Places	3.7 (0.9-8.4)	6.1	0	0-16.7	2.8 (1.8-7.3)	5.9	0	0-16.7	0.317^a
	Shapes and colors	1.1 (1.5-3.7)	3.3	0	0-10	2.2 (1.2-5.6)	4.4	0	0-10	0.317^a
	Toys and musical instruments	4 (3-11.1)	9.2	0	0-27.3	4 (3-11.1)	9.2	0	0-27.3	1.000^a
SP%	Clothing	25.6 (17.8-33.3)	10.1	20	10-40	17.8 (7.8-27.8)	13	10	0-40	0.065^b
	Animals	8.9 (1.6-16.1)	9.4	6.7	0-26.7	5.2 (0.9-9.5)	5.6	6.7	0-13.3	0.131^a
	Food	19.3 (11.4-27.1)	10.2	13.3	6.7-40	15.6 (5.3-25.8)	13.3	13.3	6.7-46.7	0.236^a
	Means of Transport	12.1 (7.2-17.1)	6.4	9.1	9.1-27.3	10.1 (7.8-12.4)	3	9.1	9.1-18.2	0.414^a
	Furniture and utensils	19.9 (12.8-27.0)	9.3	20.8	4.2-33.3	12.5 (7.4-17.6)	6.6	12.5	4.2-25	0.028^b
	Professions	34.4 (30.4-38.5)	5.3	30	30-40	22.2 (14.8-29.7)	9.7	20	10-40	0.009^a
	Places	33.3 (23.2-43.5)	13.2	33.3	8.3-50	22.2 (13.2-31.3)	11.8	16.7	8.3-50	0.122^a
	Shapes and colors	17.8 (6.4-29.2)	14.8	10	0-40	6.8 (0-13.3)	8.7	0	0-20	0.047^a
	Toys and musical instruments	31.3 (21.4-41.3)	12.9	27.3	18.2-54.6	23.2 (14.6-31.9)	11.2	27.3	0-36.4	0.137^a

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[1] Corresponding author: Helena Ferro Blasi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Curso de Fonoaudiologia - Centro de Ciências da Saúde - Rua Delfino Conti, S/N - Trindade, CEP: 88040-370 - Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil, E-mail: helena.blasi@ufsc.org