Reading development in early childhood education: the role of playfulness

Abstract

The research aims to reflect and understand the importance of playfulness in the acquisition of reading, as well as presenting playful media such as: literature, children's games and playing, artistic expressions and musical practices. As learning tools in the early years, describing the benefits that each activity can provide for early childhood education students. It discusses how the teacher can use recreational resources in their pedagogical practices, considering that each one contributes significantly to the promotion of effective learning and literacy. The focus of the research is on the socio-interactionist perspective, present in the experiences that children live through interactions with the environment, with other children, with adults and with themselves. The study had as methodological procedure the bibliographical research, through literature review in information sources such as books, scientific articles and academic works. It can be considered that an attempt was made to reiterate the importance of playfulness and pedagogical instruments as allies to the process of developing reading in the school context, aiming to offer proposals for the feasibility of a pleasant, formative and healthy pedagogical practice for children, through playfulness and multiple children's languages.