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E-READING II: words database for reading by students from Basic Education II This work is part of the doctoral thesis, in progress, titled “Translation and cultural adaptation of the evaluation of the reading processes (PROLEC-SE R) for students in Basic Education cycle II and Senior High School”, by Adriana Marques de Oliveira, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Simone Aparecida Capellini, of the Postgraduate Program in Education, of the Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências of the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” – FFC/Unesp/ Marília – SP, Brazil. This work was presented in the form of a simple abstract and was expanded at the XXIII Brazilian Congress and IX International Congress in Speech Therapy: Interdisciplinarity in Speech Therapy, Salvador, State of Bahia, 2015.

ABSTRACT

Purpose

To develop a database of words of high, medium and low frequency in reading for Basic Education II.

Methods

The words were taken from the teaching material for Portuguese Language, used by the teaching network of the State of São Paulo in the 6th to the 9th year of Basic Education. Only nouns were selected. The frequency with which each word occurred was recorded and a single database was created. In order to classify the words as of high, medium and low frequency, the decision was taken to work with the distribution terciles, mean frequency and the cutoff point of the terciles. In order to ascertain whether the words of high, medium and low frequency corresponded to this classification, 224 students were assessed: G1 (6th year, n= 61); G2 (7th year, n= 44); G3 (8th year, n= 65); and G4 (9th year, n= 54). The lists of words were presented to the students for reading out loud, in two sessions: 1st) words of high and medium frequency and 2nd) words of low-frequency.

Results

Words which encompassed the exclusion criteria, or which caused discomfort or joking on the part of the students, were excluded. The word database was made up of 1659 words and was titled ‘E – LEITURA II’ (‘E-READING II’, in English).

Conclusion

The E-LEITURA II database is a useful resource for the professionals, as it provides a database which can be used for research, educational and clinical purposes among students of Basic Education II. The professional can choose the words according to her objectives and criteria for elaborating evaluation or intervention procedures involving reading.

Keywords:
Reading; Assessment; Education, Primary Schools. Secondary Schools; Learning; Educational Status

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