Practice of literacy, textual performance and teacher evaluation

Abstract

The goal of this Article is to identify the criteria used by two Brazilian Portuguese teachers for believing that there is a writing disorder in the third grade school children, to check if these criteria include or not aspects such as practices of school and family literacy and to relate such idea with the performance of the subjects in textual features like progress, cohesion and acceptability. It included the collection of texts of 38 subjects, 19 with and 19 without complaint of writing disorders, interviews with them, their families and their teachers about practices of literacy. The work demonstrates the need to reevaluate the criteria used to label the subjects with difficulties at school, and the necessity of teachers to broaden their thought about it, for these are mainly cases of inadequate practice than of language pathology.