Meninos contadores de Histórias: da tradição à modernidade

Abstract

This paper aims to promte the literary literacy in 9th grade students of a public elementary school in Pirapora, a city in the north of Minas Gerais state. It was proposed, based on the storytelling allied to performance and orality, to give the students opportunities to acquire the habit of reading cordel poetry, chronicles, tales and novels. Different strategies of literary texts reading were used; the analysis of literary texts of different genres and, also, activities of literary reading with emphasis on texts that represent the worlds and experiences of teenagers. Regarding the methodology, action-research was adopted since the investigation looked for the achievment of a practical result in the classroom, which would generate direct effects on the social environment of the students adressed. For this, a classroom intervention was applied. The results of the application of the intervention process were observed in two ways: first, through the observation of the student participation during project development; second, with application of a post-intervention questionaire, in which students answered about the work accomplished.It was found that the intervention process offered a greater interest of students in literary texts and also reinforced the desire of reading in those that already had it. Based on these reasons, we have found that the present research brought significant contributions to our students lives, generated literary literacy in many, awakened them to literature, introduced them to the possibility of expanding their reading formation.