Livros são viagens, contos são bilhetes de partida: a literatura fantástica em sala de aula

Abstract

This work aimed to make a proposal for intervention with the goal of improving reading skills of the students from the 8th year of Elementary School at “Professor Plínio Ribeiro” State School. The scope of the intervention proposal of this project was to provide students contact with literature from the short stories such as: “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe; “The Mirror” by Machado de Assis; and the film “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” which was directed by James Bobin. Based on the correlation between the works mentioned, it was possible to develop teaching-learning practices that allowed the interest and development of critical sense of the students. The methodological approach was arranged in action research and the theoretical basis is focused on the studies of Magda Soares, Roxane Rojo, Vincent Jouve, Teresa Colomer, Lígia Cademartori, Harold Bloom, Leila Perrone-Moisés, Antônio Candido, Isabel Solé, Nádia Battella Gotlib, Charles Kiefer, Tzvetan Todorov and Ana Luiza Camarani. The intervention was carried out from the model designed by Rildo Cosson (2012), whose steps are: motivation, introduction, reading and post-reading. The proposal presented and executed was based on the difficulties presented by students in practicing reading in a pleasant way. We present the literary reading through the short stories that would be the “passport” for reading of larger works. Through the observations recorded throughout the classes it was possible to perceive that the students are interested in reading as long as resources and methodologies are used to make funnier classes. Thus, the intervention proposal demonstrated that literary literacy is essential for the development of student reading instruction, and for this, it is necessary that teacher uses all possible means. The intervention gave the students greater interest in literature, and with this they exercised their creativity by writing their own short stories as well as their own comics.