Reading and writing: a right of all people

Abstract

For many decades, innumerable failures and high dropout rates – especially during the reading and writing learning process – have been pointed to as some of the main problems of elementary education. Even after several educational system changes, the literacy learning process still maintains a high rate of students who fail to learn how to read and write, and thus remains a prominent concern for the educational system. This issue becomes even more critical in light of the fact that despite new legislation, a contingency of students reach the fourth grade without having at the very least begun the process of written language comprehension, which is to reach the alphabetic hypothesis, in which the student is able to read and write graphically what he thinks and speaks. It is the comprehension of the alphabetic basis logic that provides a platform for understanding this process, so that the same can be developed with quality. The objective of this paper is to reflect on how educators act in relation to this population that is already behind in their reading and writing learning, as they are fourth-grade students who need a different educational program in order to continue their learning. The data and analysis are from a broader study and serve to clear up the relationship between professional practice and the efficacy of the transmission of knowledge related to reading and writing: a right of all people.