My communty of precitice and my challenge

 Machado (2011) defends that reading literature , newspaper and magazines makes people intelligent and instigates our imagination and makes people write better. She also argues that children should read literature for pleasure that parents and teachers should also read literature enjoy reading it in order to motivate children to read it pleasantly. Machado (2001; 2010 ) also argues that every children has the right to read literature and to have access to this cultural heritage .Moreover , Almeida (2017 ) argues that literature is also important for the social, cognitive and emotional development of children. By reading literature, the reader discover new worlds, other cultures, new ways of thinking and acting (Almeida , 2017) Silva ( 2008) defends that literature is crucial to the cognitive development of children. Reading literature also makes people have a critical view of the world in which they live in. Reading literature makes the students think critically.

Despite all these advantages that reading literature can give to children and students, there are some problems in Brazil . One of them is that some teachers are not readers and want to force the students to read and teach literature with boring and mechanical activities. As Almeida (2017) argues this wrong methodology must be abolished from Brazilian schools and children and teenagers should be motivated to read text and literature books pleasantly. The teachers should let their students read literary text and books for pleasure and the pupils need to be free to read texts and books which interest the students with no pressure for reading them (Almeida , 2017; Machado, 2011).

Research problem and question –My challenge

There is a serious issue in Brazil. There are many elementary school teachers who do not like reading and who are not readers and they don't read Literature so they can´t encourage their students to read with pleasure and to become readers. Many writers, specialists and teachers discuss this problem. The Brazilian writer Ana Maria Machado (2011) argues that when some Education students are doing an undergraduate Education course, they are taught to impose tasks to their future pupils and they do not study to appreciate Literature as an art and to read Literature pleasantly.  So, my research question is : How can I make Brazilian undergraduate Education students realize that it’s very important that they are readers and enjoy reading Literature in order to encourage their future pupils enjoy reading Literature ?

 As future teachers they need to be readers and enjoy reading Literature in order to encourage their future pupils to read Literature pleasantly.