RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL LEVELS OF WRITING AND WORD RECOGNITION STRATEGIES

ABSTRACT: The conceptual levels of writing (FERREIRO; TEBEROSKY, 1999) reveal the evolutionary process of children’s comprehension of the alphabetic principle. On the other hand, theories about reading learning reveal word recognition strategies. Aiming to analyze the relation between the conceptual levels of writing and the strategies of reading words composed by syllables of structures CV, CCV and CVC, tests of reading and writing of words were applied in 47 children of the 1st year of elementary school. It was concluded that the evolution of the comprehension of the alphabetic principle promotes advances in the reading of words composed by CV syllables and in the formation of the orthographic lexicon; and that the confrontation with the syllable structures CVC and CCV contributes for the system of sequential analysis of letters in word recognition to change, expanding the children’s perception of the complexity of phonological structures of syllable segments.