LITERACY PROJECT IN THE SERVICE OF DECONSTRUCTING THE GAP BETWEEN FAMILY AND SCHOOL
literacy projects; family and school literacy; reading diary.
The absence of the family in the school support of children, plus a reflection on the usefulness of teaching the Portuguese language, in traditional ways, for this generation causes us concern. This lack of support for children's academic demands has sometimes caused difficulties in overcoming obstacles in learning to read and write during the first phase of elementary school. Favoring, at best, serious cognitive and psychological impairments for students. This challenged us to look for strategic mechanisms that could mitigate the effects of the problem in question by proposing an intervention. In this sense, we aim to investigate to what extent the development of a Literacy Project can contribute to deconstructing the gap between family and school, as well as motivating students, research participants, towards new reading and writing practices. We concentrated efforts so that students, with their family as a supporting role, could take the lead and give new meaning to writing based on the situations they experienced and recorded in the Reading Diary. This is an Action Research type investigation (THIOLLENT, 2011; GIL, 2002; GARCIA, 2009) with a qualitative approach (BOGDAN; BIKLEN, 1994). The participants in this are 5th year students from the Bezerra de Meneses Municipal School, part of the municipal network of Teresina/PI. Theoretically, the contributions used rest on the conception of Literacy as a social practice (KLEIMAN, 1995; 2000; SOARES, 1998; 2016; 2020; 2021; ROJO, 2009), as well as on the contributions established by Oliveira, Tinoco and Santos (2014), with regard to Literacy Projects. In reference to studies on family and school, we made use of the postulates of Szymanzki, (2003), Fraiman, (2019), and Patto (2002). The use of the Reading Diary genre is anchored in studies by Machado (1998), Gunther and Pinheiro (2008), and Remédios (1996). According to the studies carried out, we concluded that, if there is openness on the part of the school, families can greatly contribute to alleviating students' learning difficulties, not only in terms of discipline but also in the development of cognitive and affective skills. They would, in fact, be anchored by these two social agencies:School and Family.