Literatura infantil no processo de alfabetização e letramento de estudantes dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The society in which human beings are inserted is full of signs and meanings, and the process of literacy acquisition and literacy development can contribute to communication and interaction among individuals. Children’s literature can support the development of this important process by facilitating and enriching each person's learning journey. This paper aims to highlight the concepts of literacy acquisition and literacy development and how, despite having different meanings, they are interconnected, engage in dialogue, and complement each other. It is important to emphasize that this process can occur in a more playful, dynamic, and interactive way through the use of children's literature, allowing for more meaningful learning. Furthermore, being in contact with children's literature fosters not only the development of reading and writing skills but also encourages creativity, critical thinking, social awareness, self-knowledge, cognitive development, and other aspects that contribute to human development. The main objective of this text is to study how children's literature can contribute to the literacy process in the early years of elementary school. It is through a proposal for exploratory and bibliographical research that increasingly highlights literacy as part of a system and an interdependent process, in which, together with children's literature, it can generate playful and very significant learning in the construction of the student's knowledge.