TEACHING READING IN THE EARLY GRADES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: A THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL WITH THE PICTURE-BOOK WAVE (SUZY LEE)
Teaching reading. Discourse semiotics. Picture-book. Reading strategies.
In basic education, more specifically in the last two years of the initial grades of elementary school, levels in which students should have already consolidated the literacy process, the difficulties in reading are evident. We find in the classrooms children who decode texts, but are unable to go beyond the linguistic materiality to produce meaning. In this context, we chose to dissociate the act of reading from the ability to decode words, concentrating this research on the production of meaning from visual language. This paper purposes to discuss how to teach reading in the early grades of elementary school based on a picture-book. Considering this guiding question, we aim to develop a theoretical and methodological proposal with the picture-book Wave (Suzy Lee) for teaching reading in the early grades of elementary school. Aiming to achieve this goal, we formulated the following steps: a) Reflect on the teaching of reading, dialoguing with our own experience; b) Systematize knowledge about discourse semiotics and the plastic categories that constitute the visual text; c) Analyze the book Wave (Suzy Lee) from the Meaning Generative Path; d) Plan strategies and teaching activities for reading the book Wave (Suzy Lee) based on Solé (1998). As theoretical reference, we listed Geraldi (2015), Larrosa (2002), Koch and Elias (2014) and Solé (1998) – to reflect on the conceptions and strategies of reading; Barros (2005), Fiorin (1990) and Lara & Matte (2009) – to study the semiotics of the text; Floch (2001), Girão (2014; 2017), Pietroforte (2020) and Ramos (2020) – to assist in the reading of the picture-book. The study is qualitative in nature and was organized according to the following theoretical and methodological path: 1. Bibliographic research from already published materials – books, articles, dissertations and theses; 2. Semiotic analysis of an object – the picture-book Wave (Suzy Lee); 3. Pedagogical approaches for the reading of the analyzed object. We intend that the reading proposal elaborated, in pedagogical script format, with the picture-book Wave (Suzy Lee) may help the work of Portuguese Language teachers who teach in the initial grades of elementary school, configuring itself as one more possibility to expand the reading practices in the public "school ground".