Desenhar e contar histórias: caminhos para a construção da escrita simbólica

Abstract

The development of the present work came from our disquietude as teachers to investigate how the instructors of childhood education could help their students with the process of acquisition of the symbolic writing. This way, our aim was to explore the construction of the symbolic writing through activities proposed by teachers from the childhood education. A research field was carried out with a group of the childhood education in the fifth grade from a public school in Aquiraz – Ceará. Through a qualitative perspective, we have identified that the activities proposed by the teachers in the childhood classroom were: i) free draw production, ii) storytelling, based on draws iii) and the use of the genre recipe. The final drafts of these activities came to constitute our corpus. As a theoretical basis to our work, we have used the studies from the following authors: Ferreiro & Teberosky (2011), Piaget (1997) and Vygotsky (1998). The procedures of our research were: observation of classes from one group of the childhood education in the fifth grade; identification and analysis of the final drafts of the activities produced by the students from this group. Through the found results it was observed that the proposed activities showed to be functional to this phase of acquisition, because they turned the classroom into a fruitful environment to the interaction among children. Significant communicative situations were provided for the children, in which they gave evidences of understanding the letters through visual contact, for instance, with the genre recipe. Besides, the children performed the storytelling based on draws with self-assurance and artistic creativity. We conclude that teachers must take into consideration the writing from a constructive perspective, representing the evolution of each child, also regarding an internal restructuring from the school in relation to the moment of preparation for the literacy and to what refers to the manners on how to develop the symbolic writing. Keywords: