Abstract
Brazilian students had one of the worst performances in reading comprehension tasks in assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which suggests that specific procedures should be designed to remediate their deficits. This, in turn, requires a systematic evaluation of repertoires related to storytelling and retelling, so that specific and individualized teaching goals can be targeted. This study assessed children storytelling and retelling skills, as well as some of their prerequisites, through a set of standardized tests and tasks developed to evaluate these skills. Performance was analyzed according to linguistic macro and microstructures. Data show that the tasks were efficient in characterizing storytelling and retelling repertoires, providing enough data to design individualized teaching programs.
Keywords:
assessment; production; stories; children