THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF READING AND WRITING AS A CHILDHOOD`S RIGHT

Abstract

The relationship concerning childhood and literacy is still a fierce field of theoretical and methodological disputes in Brazil. In the midst of the reflections on childhood, the term literacy was banned from official speeches. This positioning has serious consequences as it reduces literacy to a strictly school task, located at a specific period in children's lives, and disregards literacy as a social communicational tool which children are progressively introduced to. In this text we present the interfaces between childhood, culture and writing activities to support that children are, at the same time, produced by the culture and also cultural producers, what includes the right to make use of the writing understood as a very important cultural heritage. In the sequence, we highlight domestic writing as a cultural aspect that children shall appropriate to take part in the family environment.and social life. From this perspective, we provoke a reflection on the writing situations that organize the functioning of the classroom and the school to defend the inclusion of everyday writing in school curricula, through an intentional and planned action that can legitimize them as a whole, as with other reading and writing practices. Finally, we reiterate the idea that the right to childhood includes the right to literacy, understood as entering the different cultures of writing.