TO THE WISE, HALF A WORD IS ENOUGH:
A look at the formation of the e-reader in the 1st year of the high school of the Sertão PE High School, Campus Santa Maria da Boa Vista
Citizenship. Profile reader. 1st yearof high school. Teaching Portuguese Language
The text "For a goodunderstanding, half a wordisenough: a look attheformationofthereader in the 1st yearofthe High Schoolof IF Sertão PE, Campus Santa Maria da Boa Vista" wastheresultof a researchthatseekstounderstandhowifoneworks - andone must work - todevelopthereadingabilityof 1st yearstudentof IF Sertão PE, more preciselyat Campus Santa Maria da Boa Vista. The researchdevelopedfrom a qualitative-quantitative approach, involved 1st yearstudentsand four teachersfromdifferentareasofknowledge, who, besidesbeingessentialcharacters for thelearningprocess, are considered as protagonistsofthestudiedphenomenon. Thisresearchwascarried out in thefollowingphases: thefirstwasthedocumentarystudyofthemainofficialgovernment assessments to profile theconditionofthereadingabilityofthe 9th grade elementaryschoolstudentandtheanalysisofthetheoreticalbasistosupporttheproposedidea; andthesecondonewasheldat Campus Santa Maria da Boa Vista, basedon interviews withteachersandthe carrying out ofconversationwithstudents, instrumentsthatservedtocollectthe data. In theend, it canbeseenthattheresultsofofficialgovernmentevaluationsbring a profile ofthe I-readerbelowthatprojected for theregion, but still notseenconcretely in thefirst-yearclassroom. It isnoticedthatthestudentrecognizestheimportanceofbeingabletoreadandthat in school, togetherwiththeteachers, heis more abletodevelophisreadingability. Contradictory, theteacherbelievesthatthestudent does nothavemotivationtoreadandthat, almostalways, thereadingisseen as theresponsibilityofthePortugueseteacher. All, however, show thatthey are awareoftheimportanceofreading for criticalandactivecitizenshipeducation, andthatthelearningprocesswouldyieldbetterresultsifthereading skills werebetterdeveloped, notonly as anactivityexclusively for Portuguese classes, butwiththe joint effortofallteachers, in theirrespectiveareasofknowledge.