The literate methods used in classroom haven't decreased the indexes of repetition in the initial grades. On that score, the present study focused on the behavior of reading and spelling. For this, the program Mestre@ (Goyos & Almeida, 1994) was used. The goals were the teaching of a repertoire of reading and spelling, made up of words regularly used in the initial grades, and the development and systematization of a teaching procedure, through software. The procedure used was the match-to-sample. The oral naming of the sample stimulus by a group of students was required, before they could choose the words that were being taught. The results indicate a high probability of the learning without error of the teaching relations as well as of the reading of the generalization words. In addition, the findings show differential effects among the groups, that is to say, facilitation to the group without the oral naming procedure.
stimulus equivalence; computational literate; oral naming
