NEW FRONTIER OF READING AND RETEXTUALIZATION: FROM THE HERO OF ADVENTURE NARRATIVES TO
STUDENT PROTAGONISM
Reading. Production. Retextualization. Following teaching.
This action research project arose from the concern of teachers and the management team at
Escola Estadual André Antônio Maggi regarding the development of students in essential reading and
text production skills. After a proposal to produce a narrative text, it was observed that the students had little
mastery of these practices. Most people know how to read, but they cannot construct meanings when reading
or produce texts from their basic structuring (paragraphs, use of upper and lower case letters, among others)
to the use of punctuation, agreement, textual cohesion and coherence and spelling. This project was designed
to serve seventh-year students who were students of the teacher researched the previous year.
The objective of the research is to analyze to what extent the adventure narrative
“Around the world in 80 days” favors the development of reading and writing skills in order to
mobilize students' protagonism. The proposal is justified because classroom practice has shown
us that students have great difficulties reading and writing, which intensified with the COVID-19
pandemic, as they spent two years with online classes, in a synchronous format and asynchronous and
the majority did not actively participate in this teaching-learning method and also the need to work on the
formal textual genres of the curriculum combined with the use of digital technologies. It is expected that this
project will contemplate and enhance the development of students and help other teachers in their
pedagogical activities.