Fio das missangas de Mia Couto: um relato de experiência de desenvolvimento do leitor literário no ensino fundamental II

Abstract

This work presents an experiment report based in an intervention project made with 9th grade students, with the main goal of investigating the development of the literary reader and how it influences in text production. The project embraces a qualitative approach in order to understand how the process of literary reading, specifically from Mia Couto’s book “O Fio das Missangas”, is able to impact the students writing. The study starts from the assumption that literary reading plays a key role in readers’ development, promoting the improvement of language, imagination and critic capacity. Furthermore, it is believed that the reading of literary works provides more aesthetic sensitivity, favoring the creative expression and the reflection on different reality aspects. Over the investigation and during the Portuguese language classes, a shared reading of Mia Couto’s book “O Fio de Missangas” in the form of reading workshops mediated by the teacher was made. The students, in pairs, also conducted analyses of tales in mini-classes format. The crowning moment of the project was the text production of a psychological tale in which the students had displayed that the access, debates and considerations about Mia Couto’s reading impacted in their writings in order to perform a sensitive language, with more mature constructions and discussing topics that, to their eyes, could touch and penetrate the humanity of others.