Análise de um Jogo Educacional para Mensuração de Habilidades Cognitivas Preditoras do Desenvolvimento de Leitura em Crianças

Resumo

One of the main challenges for schools is to identify the limitations of reading in children. This reality could be improved if educational professionals had a resource that would help them detect limitations in reading, guiding appropriate intervention methods for the child. To do so, we developed an educational game for mobile devices, designed appropriately to measure predictive reading abilities. In this article, we present a study to verify if the proposed game can distinguish the performance of two sample groups (clinical and school) in relation to children's ability and response time in tasks of phonological awareness (alliteration, segmentation, and rhyme), memory visual and visual-motor coordination. As results, in all the tasks of the game, the children belonging to the school group performed better and significantly when compared to the children of the same age group and gender of the clinical group, and this observation gives us strong indications that the game can distinguish children with strong and weak reading ability.