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20.4 Final Considerations
Children's literature is really a bridge to the universe of childhood. We observed
that as the story advances a sequence of facts is established which pre-establishes
the temporal sequence and that the reading of stories can promote the construction
of linearity in the relation time-space.
In this activity we could observe that the students took the story as reference to
locate certain elements, as in the case of the tree and the balloon (JES asked the
peers if they knew who had made the balloon before placing it). Some children used
a previous action as reference, as ANA, who placed the character after GAB had
done it. We can state that some children may have placed their characters according
to the illustrations of the topic (JHE anticipated the explanation of the activity
placing one of the boys in a side of the planet).
After this activity we noticed that it was important to perform more activities to
promote the relations of neighborhood and that it would be necessary to carry out an
individual activity to verify the performance of each student. So, two other
activities were planned. The first consisted in the organization of the elements of
the story through pasting (using bidimensional material) and the second a drawing
about the story.
The students' productions are “registers” by the children themselves concerning
the theme and can be filed in an individual portfolio. In addition to these materials,
the dialogues show that this kind of activity promotes a collective discussion about
some topics allowing the production of knowledge by the interaction among people.
We emphasize the importance of the techniques used to register the activities,
because they enabled us to obtain accurate information about the students' thinking
(in the dialogues transcribed in the recording minuting) As a result of this research
we hope to obtain a rich collection of registers and narratives to be analyzed in the
future, and also clarify some aspects about the relations time-space-body and their
representation.
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