A LITERATURA INFANTIL, A FORMAÇÃO DE LEITORES NOS ANOS INICIAIS DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL E A FORMAÇÃO DOCENTE

Abstract

Children’s Literature plays a key role in the reading and development of the child in the early years of schooling. Children develop, in a pleasant and meaningful way and through reading, imagination and understanding about reality. However, we know that many have access only to the world of reading and literary books in the school environment, and when such contact is not provided at home, it is up to teachers to foster that experience in the classroom. The methodology used in the teaching of literary reading can be decisive so that the pupils can awaken a taste for reading. However, it has been observed that the difficulties in this field and in the interpretation of texts have grown in the statistics, which leads us to think to what extent the school may be failing. We know that there are several elements that can influence school performance, and one that is usually ignored is teacher training as a promoter and facilitator of reading. This bibliographical research aimed at expressing reflections on the initial formation of readers in the initial years and of the teachers configured as mediators of such formation. The work is divided in four chapters, presenting in the first a brief history of the emergence of children's literature and their arrival in Brazil. The second chapter deals with the reading of children in the initial years and the importance of the child's contact early with the book encouraged by the family. The third chapter presents the conception about reading practices according to the National Curriculum Parameters (NCPs), the importance of exploring several textual genres and the guidelines for working with literary reading in Portuguese Language classes. In conclusion, the fourth chapter seeks to outline the relationship between teacher education and the teaching of children's literature, possible conceptions that the teacher of early years of Elementary School has on the use of this genre that is Children's Literature in classrooms, Literary reading practice as a facilitator of teaching activity.