The Portuguese Language Teaching Through a Literacy Project: the school newspaper

The present paper aims at presenting a proposal for the teaching of Portuguese language based on literacy perspective. It is an action-research whose specific objective was the creation of a school newspaper as a strategy to promote the teaching of the Portuguese language. From this objective, the necessary discursive genres for the elaboration of the newspaper were studied. Therefore, this work is based on the official documents that govern Brazilian education; Literacy Studies, according to Street (2014), Kleiman (1995, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2010), Soares (2001). There is also the assumption of the socio-historical conception of language based on Bakhtin (2003), considering that social practices should guide the teaching of the mother language in the school context. As a result, it was possible to observe that thinking about teaching based on social practices contributes to the teaching-learning process since the production of the journal’s genres (BONINI, 2014), related to student and community issues, was meaningful at the time of production.