The reading concept present in the program guide counts for me

Abstract

This article aims to reveal the concept of reading present in the Guia do Programa Conta pra mim of the Federal Government, addressed to parents. For this, we selected the terms Literacy, reading aloud, asking someone and Reading habit, all used in the statements of the document, to analyze the light of the theorists Arena, Bajard, Foucambert, Jolibert and collaborators, Girotto and Souza. The results show that the conception of reading adopted by the organizers of the Program Guide is traditional, as they confuse the act of reading with that of oralization, reinforce the importance of children answering questions prepared by their parents and not by themselves, in addition to understanding the the act of reading as a habit and not as a necessity created from the experiences of children. In addition, although we consider important a program that encourages interaction between parents and children through the vocal transmission of the text, we concluded that, as in every document, parents are asked to “read aloud” to their children, there is no reading, since the true reading is silent, a subjective process of construction of meanings.