The fairytale was once in the school: means and challenges in the initial formation of teachers of Portuguese language

Abstract

This paper aims to critically analyze a workshop reading and textual production taught in the classroom for the students of a public school in the municipality of Cerro Largo (RS), which was awarded the Scholarship Program Initiation to Teaching (PIBID). The workshop is for the speech genre of fairytale and it was studied aspects concerning the production, circulation and consumption of this genre. The fairy tale from which have developed the activities was Little Red Riding Hood, and were worked several adaptations of the tale, including film, with the goal of presenting it from different points of view. At the end of this study, was a proposal of writing on the genre in which the story should be written from the point of view of the woodcutter or Grandma. We analyzed 22 stories in which, in its second version, most students adapt themselves to the proposed text production and succeeded in appropriating the genre. Of these, twelve used narrator character, and four students chose to write his story from the point of view of grandma and eight from the point of view of the woodcutter. The ten remaining texts used narrator observer, in which four focused grandma, three focused on the woodcutter and three did not meet the proposed textual production, because the focus was not the woodcutter nor the grandmother, but the Little Red Riding Hood.