O valor das coisas “desimportantes”: o letramento literário baseado na obra Memórias Inventadas, de Manoel de Barros

Abstract

This report is the ending result of our research, which includes the study of literacy, the formation of the literary reader, the reflection on teaching practices and, above all, the proposed intervention that involves the application of didactic sequence for students in the 6th year of the Elementary School, which will be object and partakers agents of our research. This investigation aims to present and understand the literary literacy practices of students from a small town of Pontal do Triângulo Mineiro. Therefore, we discuss the concepts of literacy, children’s literature and literary literacy, seeking to understand the aspects of literature and language present in the construction of the concept of literary literacy. Cosson (2014), Zilberman (1985) and Colomer (2003) are mainly the basis of our theoretical foundation. Participant observation is the main instrument used for data collection, aided by audio recording, filming and analysis of textual production. The use of these tools will have as principle the parameters of the qualitative approach, where data will be collected from the direct contact of the researcher with the research subjects. We will conduct the fieldwork with students in a class of the 6th year of the State School R.B.N.S, in the municipality of D.C.S, Minas Gerais. Through this study, practice of literary literacy will be developed in line with the work, Memórias inventadas, by Manoel de Barros, and the works analyzed in the disciplines of the course, along with the teaching experience gained over ten years.