Relação entre leitura de palavras isoladas e compreensão de leitura textual em crianças

Abstract

Within the multiple and inter-related processes that are involved during the reading activity, word recognition and word comprehension are essential. One of the perspectives exposed by the literacy is that the reading fluency is the primary condition to reading comprehension, although not the only one, hence efficient reading does not guarantee reading comprehension. The present study also examined the inverse possibility: is that possible to have a good textual comprehension despite of the weakness in word reading abilities? This study compared second grade children’s performance in isolated-word reading and textual reading comprehension tasks in order to investigate correlations and the possibility of dissociations between those two processes. The data analysis showed a strong correlation between the mentioned abilities. Although it was possible to verify the presence of some children with high ability to recognize words and low capacity in text comprehension, the data does not suggest dissociation in the inverse way, that is, high categories of text comprehension even when in the presence of low isolated-word reading scores. Implications for clinical and educational interventions are discussed.