Prêmio SAPOTI 2023: Sustentabilidade e Sociedade

Abstract

For some decades now, the teaching of the Portuguese language has been treated as an important source of research for many authors in the area. In the current scenario, work with reading and writing in the classroom at basic schools has gained great prominence, since it is understood that it is through reading that the student has access to society's cultural assets and, through writing, that he is able to organize his thoughts. Therefore, this article aims to report my experience, during the Sapoti Prize 2023, an essay competition developed by the team of Portuguese Language and Arts teachers at Fundação Osorio, as a Writing teacher in the 2nd year of high school classes of the mentioned school. To support this report, the theoretical assumptions of Systemic-Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY & MATTHIESSEN, 2004) were used, which sees language as a system of signs capable of externalizing human experiences, since this theory sees the text as a potential for Meanings. In line with this thought, the Sapoti Prize believes that the school's main objective, in the area of language, is to stimulate students' written production, as it highlights the importance of working with text for building their knowledge. Therefore, the relevance of this work is to disseminate, in the teaching environment, different practices of working with textual production.