A mediação da leitura por meio da biblioteca escolar como incentivo ao prazer de ler das crianças

Abstract

Reading mediation is a practice that aims to establish a dialogue between the mediator and readers, with the aim of awakening interest, pleasure and understanding of reading. Properly mediated reading, linked to games, dramatizations and educational conversations, can be an incentive for children to develop the pleasure of reading. In addition to the various benefits brought by the act of reading, such as increased vocabulary, development of creativity and better quality of mental health, reading can be an ally against the excessive use of electronic devices, which can trigger problems in the physical and mental health of people. children and being able to keep them away from books. In this sense, reading mediation can be a practice that, if done with well-established purposes, can be essential for children to accept using electronic devices in moderation. The objective of this work is to analyze the contributions of literary reading mediation to the formation of child readers. The study was carried out based on some authors such as: Petit (2009), Carvalho and Cavalcante (2016) and Cavalcante, Queiroz and Sousa (2020). A qualitative research was chosen, in which a questionnaire was carried out, in digital media, with parents or guardians of children, from Kindergarten to 5th grade, at Colégio Juvenal de Carvalho, obtaining 61 responses and an interview with the institution's librarian. . Thus, the results showed that reading mediation, developed by the institution's librarian, has been an encouraging agent for encouraging children's pleasure in reading and that it is being an ally against the excessive use of electronic devices, that is, this The practice has brought benefits to little ones, such as: ease of reading, increased creativity and vocabulary, learning to have fun outside of screens and improving oral communication.