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Published on: October 11, 2018
Covid-19 school closures negatively impacted elementary-school students' reading comprehension and reading fluency
Isabella Starling-Alves1, Guilherme Hirata2, João Batista A Oliveira1
1Instituto Alfa e Beto, Brazil.
Abstract:
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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