Salada de frutas alfabética: jogo educacional para auxiliar a aprendizagem da leitura via método fônico

Abstract

This work aims to create a digital game for mobile devices on the Android platform to support and encourage learning to read via the phonic method. It is aimed at children aged four to eight, in the literacy phase. The application uses the phonic method as a basis, which consists of teaching the Portuguese language through the phoneme-grapheme association, starting from individual sounds and associating them with their graphic representation and rules of the Brazilian Portuguese Alphabetic System. To develop the game, the most popular platform for creating digital games was used, Unity, which allows the creation of both 3D and 2D games, with Unity 2D being used in this project, with development in C#. The game is structured into phase and subphase. In the phase, the child must collect fruits with letters corresponding to the spoken sounds; In the sub-phase, fruit salads with words formed from the phase's letters must feed the animals. The phases progress according to the level of difficulty of learning to read in Portuguese. The game was tested with elementary school children. At the end of the test, some difficulties could be observed, such as recognizing some letter sounds, which will decrease with literacy. The game was well received by the children. From a computational point of view, the game's operation is in accordance with its purpose and the age range it is intended for, being able to help with literacy in a playful way.