Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Marcia  and  MOTA, Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da. Does The Simple View of Reading Explain Reading Comprehension in Portuguese?. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp.306-322. ISSN 1808-4281.

The pertinence of the Simple View was investigated in this study in order to explain reading comprehension in Brazilian Portuguese amongst children attending Elementary education. Fifty children look part in the study, students of years 2 and 4 of elementary education from a state school, 23 of which were from year 2, aged between 7 and 9 and 27 from year 4, aged between 9 and 13. During the course of the research conducted, the following tests were applied: the School Performance Test (TDE), the PROLEC, a Cloze test, and Reading Comprehension test, word reading, lexical decision, pseudo-word reading and oral comprehension, subtests from PROLEC. In short, the result of the correlations and linear regressions showed the importance components of the model, oral comprehension and word recognition as well as the fact that these independently contribute to reading comprehension.

Keywords : reading; reading comprehension; word recognition.

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