Gênero Crônica: uma proposta de ensino e aprendizagem de leitura e escrita por meio de sequência didática

Abstract

Result of investigation entitled ―Chronicle Genre: a purpose of teaching Reading and writing through Didactic Sequence‖, presented to the Program of Professional Master Degree in Languages field at Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, situated in the area of concentration: Languages and literacies, in the research line: reading and text production: social diversity and teaching practices, in the stresses: Teaching and learning of reading and text production. The study was due to empirical observation of the need to do activities that help the development of abilities in reading and writing aiming the improvement in the proficiency indexes of Elementary School students. The question that guided the work was whether the development of reading and writing activities and chronicles writing, following a didactic sequence, contribute to the reading and writing proficiency in a group of students. Having in mind this issue, the main goal was to describe the reading and writing of chronicles grounded in the socio interactionism, through the Didactic sequence, being efficient to the improvement of these proficiencies. As specific goals were defined: deepen the knowledge about the sociodiscursive interactionism about genres and kinds of texts, specifically about chronicles and show what didactic sequence is besides its usefulness as methodological resource to reading and writing of chronicles; put in evidence the low proficiency in reading and writing in another group of students of Elementary school and plan in addition to developing a project of reading and production of chronicles theoretically grounded through Didactic Sequence. The methodology can be classified as qualitative, documental and the active research, that previews the social study including participation and intervention of the researcher.As theoretical foundation the theme exploitation was used: discourse genres; chronicles, its evolution, its types and discursive characteristics and Didactic sequence. The individuals of the research are students from the last stage of elementary school, enrolled at José Gorutuba School and the data description will be qualitative. It is important to highlight that it was possible to establish the efficiency of the work with chronicle genre,theoretically grounded in the interactionism perspective, besides Didactic sequence as efficient to the development of reading and writing abilities of elementary School students.