Leitura de textos no ensino médio: uma proposta didática

Abstract

The concern about the low reading performance by students of different levels of education and the belief that it is useless only be complaining about the conditions offered by the educational system or the lack of interest of students by the reading comprehension activities led the researcher to develop a didactic proposal to work with reading in school. It is believed that this proposal, as well as other ones, can contribute to a better performance of the students in understanding of school and non-school texts. In this sense, this academic and scientific study aimed to create, implement and analyze an educational product that consists of a notebook of educational activities relating to the different thought operations - comparison, classification, reasoning, hypothesis and definition, to assist the High School Portuguese teacher to develop in his/her students a proficient reading skill. The theoretical basis consists of Textual Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology principles. This study’s methodology involved field, literature, descriptive, experimental and analytical research. This study was based on authors like Raths (1977); Bamberger (1995); Colomer and Camps (2002); Kleiman (2013); Koch and Elias (2012); Sole (1998); among others. The material was applied with students from the 2nd year of High School of a public school in the city of Londrina, Parana state, in 2015. There were five meetings with two hours duration each. There was an acceptance and positive participation by the learners. The results showed a satisfactory comprehension by the students on the studied thought operations and its use as a conscious strategy to reach comprehensive understanding of several texts. This process has made the readers more mature not only with school texts, but also with texts from other areas of everyday social life. Therefore, the didactic purpose of this dissertation presented viable and productive to develop reading skills in high school students.