Avaliaçao da leitura em idade escolar em Portugal: Revisao critica (original) (raw)

We present a literature review on reading assessment of school-age children. We identify as components to consider in reading assessment, in addiction to word recognition or lexical access (which includes reading velocity and accuracy) and comprehension or semantic processing, other cognitive processes related to reading: phonological awareness, phonetic speech perception, alphabetic knowledge, processing speed, morphological processing, syntactic processing, orthographic processing and working memory. Lastly, reading assessment instruments available in Portugal, that consider multiple cognitive processes associated with reading, for school-age children, are presented and analysed critically (in its content and psychometric aspects), concluding that there is a lack of complete and valid instruments available.