“JOGO DE FIGURAS E PALAVRAS” E O DESENVOLVIMENTO DE FUNÇÕES PSICOLÓGICAS SUPERIORES: UMA INTERVENÇÃO PEDAGÓGICA COM ESCOLARES DE 2º ANO DE PORTO VELHO/RO

This article refers to research whose objective was to plan, implement and evaluate an explicit rules game applied as a complementary teaching tool to 2nd grade students at a public elementary school in Porto Velho, Rondônia State, Brazil. The “Game of Figures and Words” was designed to contribute to reading, word formation and regional history learning processes, in addition to promoting the development of higher psychological functions (HPF). The pedagogical intervention took place from September 2018 to June 2019, with four students with low academic performance in reading. Data were collected before, during and after the intervention through document analysis, interviews, Word and Pseudowords Reading Competence Test, knowledge test on regional history and participant-observation. The results suggest the game promoted the development of voluntary attention, logical memory and consciousness HPF.