Calvin e Haroldo: uma leitura multimodal no 7º ano

Abstract

Reading and understanding texts, in its various forms, is essential in the school education of students. However, for them to be able to develop such skills, they must be offered appropriate methods that contemplate the necessary multi(literacies) to master the reading mechanisms of various semiotic modes, thus resulting in a broad understanding of multisemiotic textual genres. As a teacher, we have noticed difficulties for students in the final years of elementary school in understanding and interpreting multimodal genres, such as the comic strip, although they were interested in the genre. Based on this empirical finding, we developed this work, with the general objective of analyzing semiotic modes in a corpus of 10 Calvin and Haroldo comic strips, with the production of a pedagogical notebook, directed to elementary school teachers, in order to help them develop multimedia reading skills in the classroom. The theoretical and methodological framework, qualitative in nature, includes studies of Multimodality and analytical categories of Functional Systems Grammar (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN (2004) and Visual Design Grammar (KRESS; VAN LEEWEN, 2006). In terms of verbal semiotic mode, the analysis of the culture context of the comic strips, directed by the situation context, in its field, relation and mode variables, provides a basis for the teacher to direct his students to a critical analysis of facts, social roles and relations, as well as to demonstrate that language constructs realities through the chosen contents of the lexicogram. In relation to the visual semiotic mode, directed by the representational metafunction and its processes; by the interactional metafunction, through the look and framing; and by the compositional metafunction, through salience; working together with the verbal mode, it enables the teacher to develop multimodal literacies in the students in several ways, among which the exploration of semantic multiplicity, creativity, semiotic artifacts, etc., as demonstrated in the elaborated content.