A literatura infantil e a alfabetização

Abstract

This paper analyzes the contributions of children's books in the literacy process. We know that children's books are useful in the transmission of values, knowledge and culture, and assists the child in touch with the world of writing. Through the use of children's books in the classroom the teacher can work various genres from different eras. Even the child mastering reading, the teacher can take the role of storyteller or reader to their students and bring knowledge to them. And so pleasurable insert them into the world of reading and writing, stimulating the imagination, the understanding of the world and develop critical thinking. For many children contact with storybooks is a magical time and the school is a privileged space for providing this to their students, because often this is the only time that some children have direct contact with children's literature. Contact with these books is very important for the construction of social identity and culture of each child and that contact must be initiated from the early years, even before the children are literate. The teacher literate shorten the distance that still exists among children in the process of literacy and children's literature.