A poesia no processo da literacia para a leitura nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

It is essential for the contemporary human being to know how to read as reading constitutes the indispensable condition for them to continue learning throughout life and participate in society and politics. People read in order to comprehend. This is why comprehension needs to be the most important purpose when teaching reading. This study aims to respond to this question: May poetry be an effective tool for teaching reading comprehension? In order to answer this question, the study relates research on literacy, the reading process, poetry, cognitive sciences and their influence on education, and text linguistics aiming to present the reading process as a cognitive one; reflect on the linguistic features of poetry; link the needs of the learner to the possibilities of poetry as a tool for linguistic development. Following, the study reports a classroom intervention in form of a didactic sequence (“A week of poetry”) with students aged eight to eleven. The study points out to poetry being an effective tool for the proposed aim, as well as to the importance of dealing with written language as a means of signification and educating students in order to comprehend it