Estratégias metacognitivas de leitura: um caminho para proficiência leitora

Abstract

The mastery of reading and writing is essential to fully live in the modern society, which is permeated by visual, oral and, mainly, written texts. Given this, it is known that the social individual will only have conditions to exercise his full citizenship from the moment he is capable of using reading and writing competently in their various practices in his social context. Therefore, this research analyzes the relevance of the reading metacognitive strategies, mediated by the teacher, in reading/text comprehension classes, in order to contribute to the formation of a proficient reader. It was chosen to develop this research a quantitative and qualitative method, as this study presents information of partial and absolute values, in a practice in which it is used metacognitive reading strategies, as well as the development processes and reading comprehension results of the subjects involved. This work was developed in a 6th grade class of elementary school II, of a State public school from Campina Grande – PB. As theoretical support to the development of this research, it was based, mainly, in Leffa (1996), Solé (1998), Soares (2002), Kleiman (2007), Koch and Elias (2013), PDE (2011) and Brasil (1997), because these authors contribute in a significant way with theories on reading, reading strategies, teacher’s mediation, literacy skills and reading competences. For this study, the following hypotheses were raised: the reading students do not reach 6th grade of Elementary School II with adequate reading competence for the grade in which they are located; and the use of reading metacognitive strategies can contribute to the formation of more competent readers. Based on the results obtained in this assignment, it can be said that the proposed goal was achieved, for the results point out that the students, in general, after the intervention activities, achieved significant advances in regards to textual comprehension. Therefore, it is verified that the teaching of reading metacognitive strategies in classroom is very important to the formation of the proficient reader.