Compreender e narrar histórias são comportamentos social e academicamente relevantes, porém as comunidades verbais responsáveis pela instalação desses comportamentos não têm enfatizado o ensino de sua estrutura. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar os efeitos de um procedimento de ensino de categorias estruturais de histórias sobre a discriminação de seus elementos definidores em novas histórias. Participaram oito crianças, duas meninas e seis meninos, com idades entre seis e oito anos. Foi empregado um delineamento de linha de base múltipla entre categorias, o que requereu a avaliação de todas as categorias antes do início da fase de ensino e após o ensino de cada categoria. O ensino foi dividido em duas fases: Definição de categoria e Identificação de categoria. O procedimento mostrou-se eficiente para o ensino de categorias estruturais de histórias e para favorecer a discriminação dos elementos definidores das categorias em novas histórias.

Reading and writing are behaviors that provide an individual with the opportunity for inclusion in many social environments. Despite the importance of these behaviors, statistical indices show that, in Brazil, 8.6% of the people aged 15-24 are illiterate. The purpose of this manuscript, which is divided into two studies, was to assess the effects of a Portuguese language reading curriculum for simple (Study 1) and complex words (Study 2) in illiterate adults. Four participants took part in each study. In both studies, reading was taught mainly by training dictated words to printed words relations. Overall, there was an increase in the percentage of correct responses in reading and writing tasks when pre-tests and post-tests were compared; results were more consistent in reading tasks. Future studies should continue to investigate procedures with these goals for this population.

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The aim of the present work -which was divided into two studies -was to investigate if, from teaching selection tasks, naming responses would be emitted without direct teaching. Nine children aged between 7 and 12 participated in the study. In each study, 12 abstract pictures and 12 pseudo words were utilized. The procedures were comprised of six sessions that encompassed selection tasks (name-picture relations) and naming tests (picture-name relations). When a participant met 100% correct responses in selection tasks, (s)he was exposed to a naming test. The difference among the studies was the presentation of an echoic behavior pre-test of the pseudo words. The results indicated variability in the participants' naming performance.