READING PRACTICES, GENRES AND SUPPORTING READING MATERIAL IN THE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE CHILDREN’S PERSPECTIVE IN A LITERACY CLASS

ABSTRACT: This article analyzes reading practices in the family environment of children in a second-grade class at a municipal elementary school in Porto Alegre/RS, as well as the texts and material used by the children. This study is situated in the fields of literacy and reading, under social, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical approaches. For data production, discussions involved children in focal groups, and all meetings were recorded in the field journal. The analysis of the data identified the most recurrent reading practices present in the axes: variety of reading material and reading practices indicated by the children, role of the child-reader within the family environment, children’s perspective regarding genres and reading material. It was established that the children referred more to the reading material than to the genre, and this result is of higher significance in the planning of classroom literacy and reading practices, which are assessed by the end of the text.