Nos caminhos da leitura com Monteiro Lobato: conhecendo o engenhoso Dom Quixote das crianças

Abstract

Aiming for the literary reading practice, it must be considered that the reading became basic requirement to the human knowledge. Thus, this study deals with the teacher‟s importance as the one who mediates the literary reading and the student. Therefore, the teacher needs new reading practices, applicable methodologies and relevant texts to achieve his/her goals. This study results from the urgent necessity of presenting the literary text to elementary school pupils. Thereby, there is an approach to the relevance of the encouraging the reader formation using as a start point the literary text presentation for them. This research is substantiated on the assumptions of Lajolo (1999), Zilberman (2005), Candido (2011), Cunha (1991), Calvino (1993), among others. In face of the sad reality of a country that does not read, it must be considered that there is no reading stimulus, specially, the literary one. Against this backdrop, the question that orients this work is how stimulating the formation of literary readers using a Monteiro Lobato work. So, the search for Lobato‟s literary text justifies because it allows that the student can have new possibilities of thinking and acting. Furthermore, the Lobato‟s literary texts adaptations enable that the child knows other worlds and Universal Literature classics, for that reason, “Dom Quixote das Crianças” was chose as the corpus of this study. Thus, the main aim of it, it is presenting the Lobato‟s literary text in a way that the student feels encouraged and motivated by the literary reading so that encouragement culminates in a lifetime literary reader who reads not just the lines but also between them. In addition, this work aims to develop an Activity Book as an educational product that could be a teacher‟s guide to work with the book here mentioned in order to stimulate the student‟s literary reading. At last, there are some proposed activities about “Dom Quixote das Crianças” that some students developed them in the second shift.