Workshops for text: a new look on the production and textual reading

Abstract

This paper aims to describe an experience that occurred in the IFPA - Federal Institute for Education, Science and Technology of Pará - Campus Tucuruí, with students selected from classes from 1st to 4th year of Environmental Sanitation, Computer and electrotechnology, all belonging to Education Integrated Technical high school. This experience occurred during the period August 2009 to June 2011 and is intended here to describe the process of textual production of the students involved in the workshops offered at the Institute and also evaluate the strategies of reading and text production - always with the support of teachers of geography, history, sociology, philosophy, psychologists, social workers, among other professionals. Finally, based on the results, we establish here a proposal for a dynamic and interactive workshop, which alerts the students to read good and different books, which contributes to better develop the argument. This was a project that also made use of legislation in our country, because what we want from it is to educate critical citizens, conscious of the important role they have in society and therefore know their rights and duties. The method of working combines critical reading of informational texts (drawn from newspapers, magazines, Internet and books) and a literary reader to form authentic, being very well exploited exercises oral and written production. The theoretical basis for the workshops is anchored in Angela KLEIMAN, Mariza LAJOLO and Delia LERNER. The results confirm the success of the proposals presented here used books and written for them.