As histórias em quadrinhos no incentivo à leitura nas crianças: a realidade em algumas escolas de Fortaleza

Abstract

This article seeks to show how and why that comic books are a good way to make children become interested in the reading. Often viewed with prejudice or only as a form of entertainment, these journals have much more qualities than imagined. The comics also help to exploit the resources didactic-pedagogical in the classroom, that are currently little explored by teachers. According to Santos (2001) the history in comics, to speak directly to the imagination of the child, meets their expectations and prepares it for the reading of other works. The experience of leafing through the pages of a magazine of comics can generate and perpetuate the taste by the printed book, independent of its content. The research was conducted in three schools in Fortaleza, where they were heard students, teachers and educational coordinators. In that survey done at three schools in Fortaleza, all use the DC comic books as didactic material to assist in literacy of children and said that the tool brings good results, because they help children learn having fun and encourage reading, bringing facilities so that the children seek also to other ways of reading. Were also analyzed the structure and the conditions of the rooms where children develop the work with comics, reading, writing or producing drawings. With this search is to evaluate if these conditions are suitable and collaborate with the incentive to reading. In all the schools, the magazine comics more used and of the class of Monica.