Enjoy reading: mapping reading with students from fourth grade

Abstract

In this research we analyzed the way teachers and students from the fourth grade of elementary school, in eight years, at three public schools in a midsize city in the north of Paraná State understand the meaning of reading. The study was conducted through observation in the classroom and by applying a questionnaire. It is recognized that the reading had always been very important in society, and at the beginning of this century it has presented itself even stronger due to the increase in printed publications and other forms of its manifestation, as the image, published widely in social media. Although in Brazil the level of reading performance of elementary school students does not seem satisfactory, the results obtained in this research with students show the strengthening of ties they have with reading. Nevertheless, the pleasant act of reading does not always arise spontaneously, and also the potential reader can be suppressed by several influencing factors, then there is the need for intervention by institutions close to children, so they become readers, and more than that, critical readers, society transformers. In this sense, we present in this article contributions to the teaching of reading in school.