Letras de música (funk): ferramentas para desenvolver habilidades de leitura de alunos do 6º ano – Ensino Fundamental II da Escola Estadual Erezinha Antunes Martins–MG

Abstract

This research aimed at presenting a plan of interventional proposals for reading funk music lyrics through didactic sequences and was motivated by the lack of interest and reading skills among 6th grade students at Escola Estadual Erezinha Antunes Martins in Nova Porteirinha, Minas Gerais, and by the interest in developing meaningful proposals. To this end, we started with the following question: “Can a systematic study of funk lyrics, especially the conscious funk sub-genre, be described and presented as a tool for working with reading in the final years of Elementary School?”. In this context, the hypothesis was that reading activities of funk lyrics, carried out in an interpretive, comprehensive, and critical way, in Portuguese language classes, can be described and presented as possible facilitators of the development of reading skills, towards literacy. To develop the research, it sought to present theoretical contributions that would support the development of didactic sequences for reading funk music lyrics, especially conscious funk; to analyze the results of a questionnaire on the musical preferences of the research participants; and, finally, to plan and describe didactic sequences for reading music from the conscious funk genre for students in the 6th grade of Elementary School II. It is theoretically based on authors who discuss reading comprehension, prior knowledge in reading, intertextuality, literacy, the importance of music for literacy, the funk genre, and didactic sequences. This is a qualitative, bibliographical, and propositional study, which made it possible to present theoretical subsidies, describe the reading preferences of 6th grade students and draw up three interventional proposals, in order to provide a positive response to the problem, confirm the hypothesis and satisfactorily achieve the proposed objectives.