Leitura: um hábito a ser construído

Abstract

This work enroll in the field of reading teaching, accentuating the importance of reading practice in encouraging the love of reading. With a theoretical and bibliographic nature, it aims to investigate the way the teachers of the first year of elementary school in the initial grades of a public school in São Luís - MA, develop the reading practices used in the classroom. To reach this and other goals and build the theoretical framework, we initially approached reading as an essential practice for the full development of the human being. It discusses the importance of the family, the school and the library as educational spaces and stimulators of the love for reading in children. It emphasizes the importance of the teacher as a mediator in the reading teaching process for the cognitive development of the student. The first part of the work is of historical order, locating the trajectory of the construction of reading according to the technological transformations of each epoch. Thereafter, the following aspects are analyzed: conceptions about reading, factors that interfere in the process of reading acquisition, reading strategies. The work is completed with a field research developed in a school of the municipal public network of São Luís - MA. The research concludes that, despite the theoretical currents emphasize the importance of reading in the formation of children and despite the satisfactory results that are obtained when reading is introduced in the daily life of school units, it still needs to be effectively encouraged by the school that is being read. It is a formative space for readers. Reading is an area of fundamental importance in the life of the subject of contemporary society and needs to be encouraged by all involved in the child's educational process