A POESIA DE CECÍLIA MEIRELES: PRÁTICA DE ENSINO E ALFABETIZAÇÃO NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss the importance of the poetry as a practice of teaching that favors the literacy, presenting, for instance, the poetry of Cecília Meireles, especially her child´s work This one or that one, as a playful instrument of apprenticeship for early childhood education. Elements like musicality, rhythm, alliteration, resonance, rhymes and the games with the words cause the poetic text be easier to please and to memorize, helping the child, in the literacy phase, to understand the text and preparing her to writing practice. The poetic work of Cecília Meireles express oneself in the sophisticatedly simple maner, it can may worked with education projects like the one is detailed in this study. Therefore, the methodology used in this research is based in the theoretical review, using bibliographic references of authors which bring theoretical knowledge about the theme, for instance: Abramovich (1994), Coelho (1993), Meireles (1979), Souza (2010), Melo (1995), among others. The results of the research show the importance of the daily work with the poetic text in the classroom of the early childhood education, considering it as basis in order to orientate the teaching work in a contextualized and playful way.