Contribuição da literatura de cordel no desenvolvimento da leitura e da escrita nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

Cordel literature, the object of this work, is a popular literary, fictional genre, written in the form of rhymed poetry and printed in small leaflets. This study aims to show how much cordel literature meets the precepts defined by official documents for the teaching of the Portuguese language with regard to the development of reading and writing skills. In this sense, the following question stands out: Why is cordel literature still little explored in schools compared to other textual genres? This is a bibliographic and documentary research. Bibliographic research involves authors who have published articles, books and scientific papers on the subject. The documentary research covers official documents of the teaching of the Portuguese language (National Curriculum Parameters (PCN, 1998), Curriculum Guidelines of the State of Ceará, Learning Rights, National Curricular Common Base (BNCC, 2017) and Lesson Plans (2019). The theoretical foundation addresses the cordel literature contextualizing the origin, characteristics and didactic potentialities and the potentials of cordel literature in the pedagogical work of reading and writing in the early years of elementary school. In view of the results obtained through the researched authors it appears that cordel literature is a valuable pedagogical resource with enormous potentialities linked to social literacy practices in the classroom, which contributes effectively to promote the training of readers and to explore the development of reading and writing in the Portuguese language.