THE COMIC STRIPS AS CRITICAL READING TOOL IN THE CLASSROOM
Portuguese language. Reading. Multimodality. Comic strip. Pedagogical intervention.
One of the expected competencies regarding Portuguese language teaching in the final stages of elementary education, according to BNCC (2018), is that the student can listen and produce oral, written and semiotic texts that circulate in different fields of teaching and media, with understanding, autonomy, fluency and criticality. What, in turn, still constitutes one of the major problems found in the classroom, given that most students only decode what is put in the texts, failing to carry out proficient readings beyond what is presented on the surface textual. In view of this, this work aims to present a didactic intervention proposal based on the multimodal genre comic strip , aiming to contribute to the development of critical reading of students of the 8th grade of elementary school. To support our research, we used the theoretical contributions of Dionísio (2011), Dionísio, Vasconcelos and Souza (2014), Cani and Coscarelli (2016) and Ramos (2009) to address issues related to multimodal texts and their reading; Marcuschi's (2008) studies on textual genres; Antunes (2003; 2009) and Geraldi (1997) to support the teaching of Portuguese; and Schneuwly, Dolz and Noverraz (2004) to discuss aspects concerning the work with the didactic sequence in the classroom, which will support our intervention proposal. From a methodological point of view, this work follows the guidelines proposed by Thiollent (1986) on action research, with a qualitative approach to the data according to Flick (2009). We also use the guidelines commanded by the National Curricular Parameters (1998) and by the National Common Curricular Base (2018) regarding guidelines for teaching and learning the mother tongue. This work is important for the teaching of the Portuguese language because it provides students with contact with reading through a genre that addresses reflections and criticisms of a real and social nature, making them weave analyzes beyond what is explicit in the text, collaborating for the formation of a critical reader.