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Recent developments on apps targeting reading difficulties
Sucena, Ana; Marques, Cátia; Falcão-Carneiro, João; Abreu, Paulo; Restivo, Maria TeresaSeveral studies have proved the efficacy of computer-assisted interventions in Education, but few studies have so far evaluated its impact on reading acquisition. In this study, we aim to provide a recent overview regarding effective serious games to promote reading acquisition. GraphoGame was the pioneer tool with positive effects in reading acquisition in different orthographies. This game is organized accord...
Reading skills promotion: Results on the impact of a preschool intervention
Sucena, Ana; Silva, Ana Filipa; Marques, CátiaThere is a strong correlation between preschool education skills such as phonological awareness and language and success in reading and spelling acquisition. Even though, this is still not the focus of the early intervention. This study presents the preliminary results of the impact of an intervention program developed to promote reading foundation skills. The study was conducted with 627 children in the last y...
Reading acquisition software for Portuguese speaking children: Portuguese found...
Sucena, Ana; Silva, Ana Filipa; Marques, Cátia; Garrido, Cristina; Viana, Fernanda LeopoldinaSeveral studies indicate Graphogame as an effective tool on reading and spelling acquisition. Graphogame has been designed and implemented in different languages. The Portuguese Foundation Graphogame is an adaptation of the software to European Portuguese. In this study, the Portuguese Foundation Graphogame is described and the impact on foundation reading skills is assessed. Results indicate an increase on all...
Reading fluency of higher education students
Sucena, Ana; Marques, Cátia; Silva, Ana; Carneiro, João Falcão; Sucena, AnaThe literature that links career development with reading skills is scarce. This study seeks to fill this gap, for which the reading f luency of college students was analyzed, taking into account the choice of more/less desirable courses. Desirability is based on the classifications for college access. 211 students participated in the study, 132 female, attending four courses: Mechanical Engineering, Health, Ps...
Promoting foundation reading skills with at-risk students
Sucena, Ana; Silva, Ana Filipa; Marques, CátiaThis paper presents an early reading intervention program, the PPCL (Programa de Promoção das Competências Leitoras—Promoting Reading Skills Program). PPCL focuses on the promotion of reading foundation abilities—letter-sound, phonemic awareness, decoding, and spelling—with at-risk first graders. This study assessed the impact of PPCL on the reading foundation abilities with 311 first graders (173 boys and 138 ...
ABC na prática: construindo alicerces para a leitura
Sucena, Ana; Nadalim, Carlos; Silva, Ana Filipa; Garrido, Cristina; Mata, Maria JoséO presente manual faz parte do projeto ABC – Alfabetização Baseada na Ciência, fruto de um Acordo de Cooperação Internacional celebrado entre a Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), a Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP), o Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP) e a Universidade Aberta de Portugal (UAb). Essa importante parceria tem o o...
“I Read”: reading and writing skills promotion software
Sucena, Ana; Marques, Cátia; Silva, Ana Filipa; Ramalho, Ana; Machado, Ana Rita; Santos, Ana Raquel; Santos, Cláudia; Garrido, Cristina; Freitas, HelenaPersistent difficulties in reading and writing learning are a risk factor for motivation in school and for children's schools learning. In this way, ludic instruments have been developed to face these difficulties. "I read" is a software that seeks through a systematic training and with different games, to develop and train reading and writing skills in a playful and complementary way. It should be used with ch...
Child friendly app for spelling training
Sucena, Ana; Silva, Ana Filipa; Garrido, Cristina; Marques, Cátia; Santos, Raquel; Carneiro, João Falcão; Abreu, Paulo; Restivo, TeresaSpelling skills are usually more difficult to acquire than reading skills. Nonetheless research based intervention proposals are scarce for spelling skills. In this study the impact of a child friendly spelling app on spelling skills is assessed. Results indicate an increase on spelling skills after training with the app.
Validity evidence of the reading screening test for portuguese first graders
Silva, Ana Filipa; Marques, Cátia; Sucena, AnaThis study aims to present validity evidence for the Reading Screening Test (TRL-Teste de Rastreio de Leitura) that assesses word and pseudoword reading. Participants were 94 Portuguese first graders (49 girls and 45 boys), assessed with the TRL and criterion measures—ALEPE subscales to assess words, pseudowords reading, and rapid automatized naming. Results from confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a tw...
Is Redshirting Beneficial for Reading Acquisition Success?
Sucena, Ana; Marques, Cátia; Silva, Ana Filipa; Garrido, Cristina; Pimenta, RuiThe controversy around the effect of academic redshirting on reading acquisition continues receiving attention in the international literature. However, few studies are known with non-English speaking children. In this study we intend to understand this phenomenon with 698 Portuguese speaking first graders, 360 girls (51.6%), aged between 5 years old and 8 months and 7 years old and 6 months (M = 6.3 months, SD...