Sobre teorias e experiências de contação histórias na educação infantil

Abstract

Storytelling has been carried out since the first human groups and these oral narratives gave rise to Literature and, consequently, to Children's Literature. Within the educational context, this research aims to understand how reading practices and storytelling in early childhood education can contribute to the formation of a taste for reading and an affective relationship with the literary book. Therefore, we carried out a literature review about childhood and human development processes in the early childhood education phase, approaching literary theory and seeking to understand what is meant by Children's Literature. After this theoretical framework, we look for school experiences in which Children's Literature was developed in order to train new readers. The results obtained showed that it is possible to form readers through storytelling, even before the student's literacy. The teaching work of storytelling in the classroom proved to be a valuable and effective means for the development of new readers.