The use of games as a facilitating instrument in the teaching-learning process of children in Elementary School I Ana Lucia Alvarenga Simões, Bruna Zatorre Pereira Monteiro, Sara Carvalho da Costa, Luci Mara da Silva Lundin

Abstract

This work is part of the Education area in a research linked to the Institutional Program for Teaching Initiation Grants – Capes – Pibid, in which UNISANTA is a partner. The theoretical basis has as main authors Piaget and Emília Ferreiro, who focus on learning through play. Pibid aims to encourage teacher training at the higher level, contributing to the valorization of teaching, seeking to improve the quality of initial training. The subproject of the pedagogy course develops activities with students in the first and second years of elementary school in a school in the municipal network of Santos, which develops basic psychological processes using games, thus seeking to facilitate the socio-cognitive development of the students served. The objective of the research is to analyze how the use of games can be a facilitating instrument in the teaching-learning process of elementary school children in the initial years of literacy. Based on the premise that children who are learning to read and write use games and play as one of their main languages, the study seeks to apply them as a stimulator of the basic psychological processes that are fundamental to literacy. It is an action research, in which researchers intervene in the reality they encounter. The results are partial, and the project is ongoing. We can state that there are intra- and extra-school factors that interfere with student learning. Another point found is that the number of interventions carried out by the project participants is insufficient to produce positive results in the literacy process.