READING PRACTICES IN CHILDHOOD: STORYTELLING AND MEDIATED READING IN PANDEMIC TIMES

Abstract

This article seeks to describe one of the activities developed in the Institutional Program of Scholarships for Teaching Initiation (PIBID) financed by CAPES by scholarship holders from the University of the State of Minas Gerais. The project aimed to promote virtual reading practices of storytelling and mediated reading during the Covid-19 pandemic period for students of the first year of Elementary School in one of the classes of one of the schools participating in the program. The methodology used to apply the project was online meetings through the virtual platform Google Meet. Three meetings were held: the first being a conversation circle with the children about reading habits; in the next meeting, a virtual storytelling and in the third meeting, a mediated reading of the work and discussions about previous meetings. The stories used in the project were the tale Rapunzel, by the Brothers Grimm and the adaptation Rapunzel and the Quibungo, by Cristina Agostinho and Ronaldo Simões Coelho. At the end of the project development, it was possible to observe the children's taste and interest in reading, their previous knowledge, the development of creativity and imagination by the possibilities raised by the children of retelling the original fairy tale. Even with all the problems involving the context of isolation imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the completion of the project it was found that teaching practices could be carried out by the scholarship holders, and that such practices had satisfactory results for those involved.