Contação de histórias: instrumento necessário no estímulo à leitura

Abstract

Storytelling is one of the oldest media, used since the dawn of mankind to transmit values and knowledge, developing the habit of reading. Through stories, people have the opportunity to become regular readers and discoverers of an imaginary world. Listening and storytelling allows students to build their own story and share with others in a moment of creativity. The research aims to analyze storytelling as a tool that contributes to children's learning. The research offered the opportunity to investigate the storytelling in Elementary School I, in (E M M S A), a public school in the municipality of São José dos Cordeiros - PB. The methodology used in the research was qualitative of the descriptive type, in which we used as a data collection instrument the questionnaire, the corpus was composed by two educators who teach in the second year of elementary school I. Our theoretical foundation is based on Abramovich (1997), Bettelheim (1997), Machado (2007), and others that address the importance of storytelling. Storytelling provides emotions, and is a beneficial activity used in classrooms as a pedagogical practice that effectively contributes to the training of good readers