Fluência e compreensão da leitura em escolares do 3º ao 5º ano do ensino fundamental

The study aims to characterize and report on performance in reading fluency and comprehension. The study sampleincluded 97 students from 3 rd to 5 th grade at a state school in the city of MaríliainSão PauloState of Brazil. The procedures involved an evaluation of reading time, prosody and text comprehension. The oral reading of a text wasrecorded, and a multiple choice test was applied to evaluate performance in comprehension. The results were statisticallyanalyzed and showed that performance in students’ reading fluency was able to highlight aspects of the difficultiesthat arise during the processing of reading.