COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LITERACY EFFECTIVENESS ON CHILDREN OF THE 1ST YEAR OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BY DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES

Abstract

Reading and writing skills are indispensable for life in and out of schools in modern democratic societies. It is a basic human right that has often been denied. Quality literacy involves the search for teaching practices that are efficient and that promote better results in students' learning levels. In Brazil, in 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of children between 6 and 7 years old who could not read grew to 40.8%. Before the pandemic, there was already an urgent need to adapt learning processes to the real needs of children. The general objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of different literacy methodologies, including the Mouth® Method, based on the comparison of the performance of three groups of children attending the 1st year of Elementary School in public schools, in the skills verified in the New Mouth Surveys, in two stages. The results of the study showed significant variation in relation to the group and moment factors, and the experimental group that adopted the Boquinhas® methodology was the one that presented the most consistent results.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.041-043