This Master’s thesis presents a study about the educational reality of the municipality of Soure, in the state of Pará, regarding the performance of the students finishing elementary education (9th grade students) in the subject Portuguese language. The research was carried out at the State School of Elementary and High School Prof. Gasparino Batista da Silva and it aimed to assess the students’ literacy level considering their reading competence and their writing performance. Research results have shown a very problematic scenario since the students scored a low proficiency index in their reading and writing practices. Considering the above, an action plan has been made based on Bronckart’s socio-discursive interactionism theory (1999) and Bakhtin’s genre theory (1979) in order to reduce the many difficulties faced by that community. A literature review has been carried out so as to deepen the discussion of the proposed theme and it focused on topics related to the concepts of alphabetization, literacy, reading and writing; for that, many authors have been read such as Soares (2003, 2012 and 2013), Kleiman (2012), Cagliari (1997), among others, and also the legal base documents that guide Brazilian teaching have been consulted (the PCN; Portuguese for National Curricular Parameters). In the process of constructing the intervention proposal, we chose to create an instrument that could actually contribute to the process of teaching and learning the mother tongue, both for students and teachers. Therefore, the proposal consisted in the definition of text genres as the main teaching objects in the Portuguese language subject being taught through didactic sequences (Dolz and Schneuwly, 2001). In order to check the applicability of the proposal, an attempt at its application has been made during the research with the observed grade. After obtaining relevant results regarding the students’ performance in the suggested activities, we decided to apply the intervention proposal in the other classes of the school.
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