Covid-19 school closures negatively impacted elementary-school students’ reading comprehension and reading fluency skills

In Brazil, schools remained closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 for approximately two years. In this study, we investigated how COVID-19 school closures were associated with gaps and losses in Brazilian students’ reading skills. We contrasted the reading comprehension and fluency of 2nd- to 4th...

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Autores principales: Starling-Alves, Isabella, Hirata, Guilherme, Oliveira, João Batista A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9946888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36852098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102753
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description In Brazil, schools remained closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 for approximately two years. In this study, we investigated how COVID-19 school closures were associated with gaps and losses in Brazilian students’ reading skills. We contrasted the reading comprehension and fluency of 2nd- to 4th-graders in 2022 with a 2019 cohort. Furthermore, we investigated how 2022 5th graders’ reading comprehension and fluency skills have improved since 2019. Overall, results showed that COVID-19 school closures were associated with gaps but not losses in reading comprehension and fluency. Therefore, these skills should be targets of educational interventions.
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spelling pubmed-99468882023-02-23 Covid-19 school closures negatively impacted elementary-school students’ reading comprehension and reading fluency skills Starling-Alves, Isabella Hirata, Guilherme Oliveira, João Batista A. Int J Educ Dev Article In Brazil, schools remained closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 for approximately two years. In this study, we investigated how COVID-19 school closures were associated with gaps and losses in Brazilian students’ reading skills. We contrasted the reading comprehension and fluency of 2nd- to 4th-graders in 2022 with a 2019 cohort. Furthermore, we investigated how 2022 5th graders’ reading comprehension and fluency skills have improved since 2019. Overall, results showed that COVID-19 school closures were associated with gaps but not losses in reading comprehension and fluency. Therefore, these skills should be targets of educational interventions. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-05 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9946888/ /pubmed/36852098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102753 Text en © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36852098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102753
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