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OPINION ARTICLE AND TEXTUAL COHESION: WORKING WITH WRITING IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

1. Opinion article; 2. Textual cohesion; 3. Language competence; 4. Didactic Sequence.

Communication is one of the most important characteristics of the human species. It happens through speech, gestures and writing. In contemporary society, the use of writing is indispensable, as people communicate daily through instant messages and texts to school, e-mails, blogs, universities, etc. School is the environment where children begin to develop their writing skills and, over time, they learn how to write and use writing formally or informally, however, they understand that they need it in order to express their opinions, ideas and your thoughts. This course completion work presents the results of an Intervention Proposal for the creation of an opinion article, carried out with students of the 8th year of Elementary School at a school in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. The research was carried out in the year 2022 with 14 male and female students aged between 13 and 15 years old and the general objective was to develop the linguistic competence for the production of cohesive and coherent texts by the students. In specific ways, we sought to recognize textual cohesion in the opinion article genre; realize the importance of textual cohesion in written production; and present the results of an intervention proposal related to textual cohesion through the opinion article genre. An action research was carried out and a didactic sequence was used, through a qualitative approach in data analysis. Classes were held with the aim of listening to the students' opinions and then starting the process of building texts with cohesion and textual coherence to obtain the final purpose, which was the production of an opinion article. The results showed that the intervention project, carried out with students from a school in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, expanded their knowledge about textual production with regard to the topic addressed.