Contributions to Provinha Brasil's improvment as a tool for diagnosis of reading in initial series

Abstract

Provinha Brasil is a Brazilian diagnostic assessment of literacy skills that is as limited and incomplete as any other evaluation instrument. This fact can make the results less effective. Thus, in order to contribute to the improvement of the test, we present an analysis of three aspects related to the design and development of Provinha Brazil: the evaluation of narrative competence, the treatment of linguistic variation and the formation of literacy teachers.

Provinha Brasil; narrative competence; sociolinguistic competence; teachers formation