THREE QUESTIONS ABOUT READER TRAINING:

Abstract

This essay deals with three interrelated aspects of teaching literature. The first one concerns the need for school libraries and their centrality in reading training; it also presents some public policies for building library collections, and a specific law that ideally determines the existence of libraries in all Brazilian schools. The second aspect discussed is the insistence on discourses about the habit and the pleasure of reading, when its practice should be the focus. Pleasure and habit are seen as possible consequences of practice, which is why practice should be the target. The third and last topic discusses the fragmentation of school time and the predominance of short texts in the school context, to the detriment of reading long genre (such as novels and biographies) that provide the continuity of reading experience.