Abstract
The objectives of this work were the ones of qualifying teachers of the reinforcement room, of
the Fundamental Teaching, for the use of the methodology of the equivalence of incentives
with your students, through a computerized program and, through the application of the
methodology of the equivalence, to verify the history of two students' interaction with the
referring illustrations to the training words and to compare their acting with the others, with
relationship to the widespread reading. Announced three teachers of the Fundamental
Teaching (being two of the same school) and four students, two of each school, presenting
reading and writing difficulties, as omission of the reading and/or of the writing of syllables,
change of syllables or not to get to read and/or to write nor it a part of the word. The schools
are located in Londrina, Paraná. Initially was realized the participants' selection, that it
happened through the supervisors' indication, a reading initial test with the students to
establish the base line and the initial training. In the initial training, were presented
illustrations corresponding to each word that would be taught (training word) and requested
the child that said the name of the illustration and, for two students, one of each school, that
read less words in the initial read, was asked for they spoke what knew about each illustration
that was being presented. Parallel to that, the teachers participated of encounters for the
discussion of relative theoretical subjects to the methodology, as well as to know the software
and to learn to handle. Soon after, they led the experimental sessions with the students for the
application of the methodology of equivalence of incentives, for the teaching of reading of
words. The results demonstrated that, regarding the application of the methodology, all the
teachers, starting from the second application session, got to lead the session without the
researcher's aid and they evaluated how a methodology easy of being used in their work with
the students, besides one of them told to be using the program Master with other students of
the reinforcement room. In relation to the results with the students, it was verified that all got
to read the training words, as well as to maintain that reading along the encounters. About the
generalization words, all the students got to read new words. Though, the students that passed
for the procedure of having spoken what they knew on the referring ones to the training
words, in the initial training, they got an important performance in that task, what seems
indicate that, if there is the contextualization of the words that will be taught in the
methodology of the equivalence, that can be more effective to promote the reading of the
training words and, mainly, of new words.
Word-key: teachers' training; reading/writing difficulties; reinforcement room; conditional
discrimination