The Importance of Reading in Public School Student Learning

Joselene Granja Costa Castro Lima

(Colégio Estadual Edvaldo Fernandes (SEC-Ba), Brazil)

Abstract: Reading is of fundamental relevance in the acquisition of the knowledge of the individual, for his understanding of the world and socio-cultural development. Reading makes the subject belong to a medium that is renewed daily through his thoughts and ideas, being able to new challenges and building his own intellect. It is the role of the educator to provide the learners with different reading materials and at the same time to create strategies that lead them to maturity and autonomy in the issues of reading. The school environment and teachers need to stimulate and instill in the student a taste for reading. For the accomplishment of the present study we opted for the method of bibliographical revision with references made on the basis of books, scientific articles, texts and periodicals published in electronic address and, also, in documentary research. Such research arose from the need to reflect on the importance of reading for student development and how the habit of reading is still deficient in public education in Brazil. Because a large number of authors approach this subject, this study can be complemented and extended in the long term, with more theoretical basis.

Key words: reading, learning, student