The concept of literacy and the practices of reading and writing

This article presents a methodological approach developed for the work with reading and writing in the school context, the Circuit of Diversified Activities (DAC). The principles and guidelines of pedagogical work stand out, emphasizing them as elements capable of qualifying literacy practices from collaborative processes. It ends by presenting tensions: the schooling process and the social practices of reading and writing, which lead to the protagonism of students in the literacy cycle; school purposes and extracurricular purposes, which deal with the conditions of use of language in and out of school; durable knowledge and preservation of meaning in reading and writing, focusing on the importance of the training of readers and writers.