DIGITAL LITERACY IN FUNDAMENTAL TEACHING II: READING STRATEGIES WITH THE USE OF HYPERTEXT
Digital Literacy. Hypertext. Reading Strategies. Links.
Access to new information and communication technologies, especially the internet, is now a tool that contributes to the development of reading and writing. With the introduction of digital culture as a pedagogical practice, students are led to use the internet as a support for teaching / learning content, which challenges them to read more and more through hypertexts. Therefore, our objective was to analyze the performance of the students of a class of the 9th grade of elementary school regarding reading on screen. For this, we elaborated a proposal of intervention that directed the development of the abilities of reading and understanding of the hypertext in the digital context. In the methodological field, the work was anchored in a qualitative approach, whose generative principle is structured in an action research. We justify this work because when we bring to the classroom hypertextual literacy practices, we will be guiding students to build skills and abilities that will be useful for life, as well as for the formation of critical citizens and thus able to correspond With which modern society expects. As theoretical assumptions, we used the works of Levy (1993), Xavier (2002), Cascarelli (2012), Braga (2013), Gomes (2011), among others. To support the reading work, the strategies set forth by Solé (2010) were used. We hope, therefore, that this work can help the school to see the hypertextual tools as a resource that shows other possibilities of learning and knowledge. That this practice, too, should not be limited only to the teaching of Portuguese Language, but that the work with hypertext be understood as a practice to promote digital literacy in the school context. As a result, we hope that the work with hypertext can occupy a significant space in the students' learning and that allows them to enjoy this written modality without losing their freedom as to the uses of the links that lead to differentiated paths. Hypertext has played a prominent role in today's society, therefore, it becomes a relevant support for proficient readers in multiple literatures, including digital literacy.