A leitura e a escrita nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental: o que pensam as professoras de uma escola de São Bento/PB

Abstract

This study discusses the theme of reading and writing in the early years of elementary school. Its main objective was to analyze the understanding of teachers in the early years of elementary school about working with reading and writing, its specific objectives were to analyze how reading and writing has been worked, to analyze the greatest difficulties encountered by teachers/ facing the reading and writing acquisition process with children and identifying strategies used by teachers in the reading and writing process. For the theoretical basis, the studies by Freire (1989), Cagliari (1989), Pan (2005), Silva (2013), Soares (2021), Albuquerque and Ferreira (2020), Brandão and Rosa (2010), Martins (2004), Gil (2008), Vygotsky (2000), Chimentão (2009) and Pais (2011). The research was exploratory and descriptive, based on a qualitative approach, carried out through the online application of a questionnaire consisting of 10 open questions, carried out with teachers from the 1st to the 5th year of a public school in the city of São Bento/PB. Data analysis was performed from content analysis. The teachers' answers were analyzed in the light of the research's theoretical framework. The research results point out several difficulties found by the teachers with the work related to reading and writing in the early years of elementary school, and also a superficial understanding of the subject. Since the teachers answered the questions briefly and without theoretical foundation.