THE USE OF DESCRIPTORS IN TEACHING READING: A PEDAGOGICAL INTERVENTION PROPOSAL
Reading competence. Reading Strategies. Reading Descriptors.
Reading and understanding are skills that converge to a third: that of interpreting. Undoubtedly, these capacities are complementary and indissociable to the reading competence, which every teacher hopes to see developed in his learner. Thus, the ability to understand the text and the author's communicative intention is not an easy task and requires the execution of procedures that go beyond the decoding of words, since the reader must unveil the explicit and / or implicit ones present in the text and That without your understanding, proficient reading becomes limited. From this perspective, we have as a general objective to investigate the reading competence of students of the 9th grade of a public school in the city of Currais Novos / RN, based on a pedagogical intervention based on the Reference Matrix of Portuguese Language, focusing on the use of the descriptors Used as strategies of reading the discursive genres news and comic strip. The study is part of Action Research, as a continuous attempt to improve pedagogical practice, in view of the intention of organizing procedures that may contribute to the development of students' reading competence. The theoretical contributions were based on the conception of genres, as discursive social practices, with Bakhtin (2006, 2011), the foundations for working with the language as a social reality, in an interactional perspective. As regards reading and comprehension strategies, the studies developed by Lefta (1996), Solé (1998), Kleiman (2000, 2007), Koch and Elias (2006), Oliveira (2010); The elaboration of the didactic sequences was organized from Schneuwly and Dolz (2004), besides adopting the guidelines on the teaching of Portuguese Language, contained in the National Curricular Parameters (1998) and authors like Riolfi (2008), Oliveira (2010) , Suassuna (1995), among others. The results of the use of the descriptors as strategies for the development of reading competence of the students revealed significant advances in their performance, since they facilitated the comprehension of the texts read in the reading activities that were proposed.