THE CHRONICLE GENDER IN THE CLASSROOM: a writing proposal for students in the 7th grade of elementary school
Portuguese Language Teaching. Writing competence. Textual production.
This dissertation aims to present an intervention proposal aimed at Portuguese language teachers, with the perspective of assisting in the writing training of students of the 7th year of elementary school. From the analysis of the manual of the professor of the collection, Singular & Plural: reading, production and language studies (2018) – 7th year – of the authors, Marisa Balthasar and Shirley Goulart, we developed a set of propositional activities, based on the reading of chronicles, because we consider necessary a supplementation related to textual production. Thus, teachers will apply activities that promote the writing competence of students using this genre in the classroom as an artifact for textual production, in order to make them fit with regard to the identification of the various types of chronicle and understand their social function, as well as become producers of individual and collective texts from the reflections on the chronicles read. That students write chronicles and understand the need for reading for the development of their writing competence is part of the strategies offered to the teacher, in addition to the textbook. The proposal for intervention was based on the didactic sequence of Dolz, Noverraz and Schneuwly (2004). For its elaboration, we adopted the principles of action research (THIOLLENT, 1986), since the problem that involves reading and writing should therefore be investigated and resumed by the parties involved – teacher and students. In view of the above, we hope to contribute to the teachers in the sense of reflexively leading the students to the importance of the Portuguese Language in daily school practices, showing ways to improve the writing of these students through the approach of chronic gender.