“…As for the studies that had elementary school students, we found researches directed at the early years (Borges & Santos, 2016;Bortolanza & Cotta, 2012;Carvalho, Monteiro, Alcará & Santos, 2013;Cunha & Santos, 2015;Gomes & Boruchovitch, 2011;Machado & Capellini, 2016;Mota et al, 2012;Mota & Santos, 2014;Oliveira, Santos, Boruchovitch & Rueda, 2012b;Suehiro & Santos, 2015;Witter & Silva, 2011), final years (Baptista et al, 2016;Joly & Piovezan, 2012;Joly et al, 2014;Oliveira et al, 2012a) and in both modalities (Oliveira et al, 2016). It is also noteworthy that among the reported studies, the study of reading comprehension was related to several variables such as gender, school year, type of school, writing skills, metatextual awareness, differential operation by Cloze test items, school performance, among others.…”