The The literary genre fantasy fiction in the classroom:

a portal for the imaginary of the child-juvenile public from a reading and writing experience

Abstract

The fantasy novel allows people access to the world(s) of the imaginary and, in this sense, we are led to ask whether this prose subgenre is not a potential means to encourage reading among young people. Guided by such concern, we proposed a practice of training readers from the book A terra dos meninos pelados, by Graciliano Ramos (2010). The activity, based on precepts of multiliteracies and studies on the fantasy novel, was structured based on the need to develop reading and writing strategies in the classroom with classes of 6th, 7th and 8th grades of Elementary School of a school public. One of the tasks consisted of writing a narrative divided into a few chapters in which each student had to make relationships with their reality and, suddenly, imagine a transdimensional portal opening to a surreal world. With this proposal, a dialogue was held between BNCC (BRASIL, 2018), reading theory and literature (PETIT, 2008, 2009; ZILBERMAN, 2010), literacy and multi-literacy (KLEIMAN, 2005, 2008, 2014; LEMKE, 2010; NASCIMENTO, BEZERRA E HEBERLE, 2011; ROJO, 1999; SOARES, 2002) and theorists of the fantasy novel and fantastic literature (TODOROV, 1981; VAX, 1965; CAMARANI, 2014).