LITERACY AT THE RIGHT AGE AS A PREREQUISITE FOR PROPER STUDENT TRAINING IN BASIC EDUCATION

Abstract

The theme of literacy at the right age will be discussed in this article, and its importance for an adequate formation of the student within basic education. The work is a literature review based on authors who had relevant productions within the area of interest of this work. The hypothesis raised here is to what extent literacy is a prerequisite for the process of educating the student for the other stages that make up basic education. The objectives pursued here are to discuss the importance of literacy at the right age for the development of the student in the other stages of schooling; discuss how these processes develop, discuss how they occur and are understood by students. The work was structured in three subtopics, which, one by one, were developing and qualifying the production presented here. The fi rst subtopic focused on the general concept of literacy, the second discussed how literacy occurs, ending with the third topic that presents the importance of this process for the student’s life. We saw then that literacy at the right age is, in today’s society, more than just making the student able to join syllables and read words, it has the ability to present a wide and connected world, where reading and, mainly, interpretation of what is presented to you is extremely important. Thus, literacy at the right age is more than ever a fundamental right of children up to eight years old.