Cortiços: modos de ler e habitar

Abstract

As it is at Cosson (2014) the literary literacy is the appropriation of literature as language. At his theory literary reading do not happen if the reader do not take part of what is reading. One way to help the student appropriate literature it is to develop strategies that assist at the time of reading the literary work. Because of this it is important at the moment of choosing the literary work to choose as well the school activity that the teacher will develop. In his work entitled “Letramento literário: teoria e prática” Cosson (2006) come up with a series of activities that can be used in literary text in school. The sequence of this work is very relevant to the thesis that defends the literature not only as a way of enjoyment. This research aims to make a theoretical survey on the situation of literary reading in the school environment and propose a series of activities for the 8th grade of elementary school based on the principles of literary literacy as proposed at Cosson (2006). The selection of the book “Dez dias de cortiço” (a retelling of the book “O Cortiço” from Aluísio de Azevedo) was because the work represent relevant issues to the intellectual growth of the students and are strongly present in the reality of teenagers involved in the research. It is hoped that the proposal can be an example of practical school activity with the literary book which serves as a research resource for other teachers from basic education seeking to build more effective strategies to promote literary literacy