LEITURA DE TIRAS NAS AULAS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA

Abstract

In this study, the strategies adopted in Portuguese Language classes for the development of reading competence are explained. The planning of activities was based on reading the comic strip genre, with students of the ninth grade of Elementary School. It is understood that the student is a subject who builds knowledge gradually, in the interaction with teacher and classmates. For that, two procedures were adopted: guided participation, explained by Solé (1998), and self-explanations, exposed by Abarca and Rico (2003). Action research (TRIPP, 2005) was the guiding method of the research in question, considering, among other aspects, action planning, with the objective of improving classroom practice. The perception that students brought difficulties in reading multimodal texts, in a more specific way, concerning comic strips, which constantly appeared in didactic materials and in evaluations, motivated the achievement of activities that would help them in this sense. At the end, it was found that the students were able to read with greater ease and autonomy.