Endlessly Reading: A Brief Foray Into Reading Strategies in the Classroom

Abstract

In this article, we start from the report of three experiences lived in IFPE Campus Recife to think about the teaching of literature in the integrated secondary school system. Our objective with this work is to discuss how the teaching of literature can stimulate the construction of knowledge in a perspective that calls the student, as a historical subject, to the encounter with (and by) language, mainly based on the thought of Candido (1988), Freire (1989) e Manguel (1997). We can highlight some issues that were central to our experiences: the importance of making room for the voices that populate the classroom; the urgency of the dynamics between language and reality, in the confrontation and in the encounters of the work of art with the lived life; and the valorization of authorship and multiple reading strategies as possible responses to problems such as apathy, curricular obstacles and time.