The role of children's literature in the development of the reading child: theoretical and practical analysis

Abstract

Children's literature is a cultural product with a multimodal character, therefore, it tends to be attractive and creates different possibilities of being read and understood. Reflecting on this, we take as a guiding question for this study: does children's literature enhance the formation of readers? From this questioning, we aim to investigate how teachers understand the influence of the use of children's literature books on the development of reading children. To better understand the relationship between children's literature and the constitution of readers, we propose a dialogue between theory and practice, through a qualitative research, through a questionnaire applied to teachers who work in the early years of Elementary School and bibliographic research, whose main authors were Coelho (2000), Gregorin Filho (2015) and Soares (2021). As a result, we realize that children's literature plays an important role in encouraging reading, consequently, it contributes significantly to the literacy and development of reading children, for that, it is necessary a pedagogical action that contemplates and makes good use of literature for children, which culminates in a need to increase the initial and continuing training of teachers regarding the literacy and literacy process in the early years of Elementary School