Leitura: a prática e a concepção dos alunos.

Abstract

Reading is an inexhaustible source of knowledge. Its importance and extreme consecration in the school world providing varied benefits to all those dedicated to this practice of active reading. The ability to read and of such singular importance in the someone's life, that their experience in learning to read seals their destiny in relation to school life. According to the richness of the theme, there was an interest in investigating the conception of students in relation to the practice of reading at school. To unravel this I proposed to carry out this monographic work with the objective of identifying the students' understanding and perception about reading worked in the classroom. In research that has a qualitative profile, I used as a method, to collect data, the interview with 5th grade students from the Municipal School of Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education Vitoria Bezerra, located in the municipality of Cajazeiras - Paraíba. To substantiate this investigation I took as a reference the texts of Martins (1994), Freire (1994), Zilberman (1998), Kleiman (1999) among others. At the end of the research, it was found that the majority of students like to read and do it at school. At school, your reading sources are varied: in addition to the textbook, they often read magazines, newspapers and outside school practice reading with a variety of text holders. The conception that students good reading skills, demonstrates that they know and recognize the benefits of this activity. The accomplishment of this monograph work came to provide subsidies for a more effective training and aware of the importance of the teacher in encouraging students to exercise frequent reading activities.