This work is part of a “Language practices and teaching training project” (UFPA - Castanhal) and presents a qualitative, interpretative and ethnographic action research. From the beginning, this study reflects on the following question: What are the levels of responsiveness of the students from the 9th year of elementary school during reading activities? In order to answer this question, it was elaborated, in the light of Applied Linguistics, a proposal for intervention focusing on reading and writing based on the conception of an Educational Project of the discursive genres, Lopes-Rossi (2008). This work also aims at cooperating with reading activities, based on the dialogical conception of language in a Bakhtinian perspective from the discursive genre. The application of this project was carried out in a public school in the city of Soure, in the state of Pará. This study emphasizes the following issues: a) the use of the cartoon genre during the reading activities was successful in this research, since they promoted the active responsive understanding of the learners and contribute to the formation of them as conscious, reflexive and critical readers; b) 9th grade students demonstrate active responsiveness at different levels during the reading activities in the classroom. Therefore, the general objective of this research is: to reflect on the students’ responsiveness during the reading process. Moreover, this work also aims at: a) verifying the effectiveness of the reading activities elaborated within a reading project that uses cartoon genre by comparing students’ activities; b) demonstrating and characterizing the 9th grade students responsiveness regarding their performance during the reading activities; c) demonstrating whether or not there were improvements in the students’ reading skills. The data collected were interpreted based upon the idea of active responsive understanding borrowed from the Bakhtin’s thinking (2011) that defines responsiveness as passive and silent (delayed effect). The categories expanded by Menegassi (2008) are also relevant for this study, such as: active responsiveness with explanatory and exemplary expansion, passive responsiveness without expansion, active responsiveness without explanatory and exemplary expansion; Another important author is Ohuschi (2013) that highlights subcategories which are expanded and subdivided into levels such as: criticism; opinion; comment and exemplification; explanation; disagreement; suggestion; questioning; agreement; doubt; understanding. The results showed the presence of responsive understanding among those elements already identified by Ohuschi (2013) such as: active responsiveness with explanatory and / or exemplary expansion in the levels of criticism, opinion and explanation; Silent responsiveness at the levels of understanding and doubt. Moreover, students' responses and the context of the research guided us to add new data: 1) It was detected the levels of description, objectivity and sensitivity in the active responsiveness category with explanatory and / or exemplary expansion; 2) we also identified a new responsive understanding category, which we call active responsiveness with partial expansion. This new category helped us to highlight the following findings: a) the levels of explanation and doubt (OHUSCHI, 2013); b) the levels of description, obliquity and objectivity.
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