Public early literacy policies

Abstract

In the 2016 National Early Literacy Assessment (ANA) (INEP, 2017), 2,160,601 students from Brazilian public schools were evaluated at the end of the 3rd year of the Early Literacy Cycle, in reading and writing, among which only 12.99% reached the aimed level (4) in reading and only 8.28% reached the aimed level (5) in writing. However, in Lagarto city (Sergipe State), which, according to the aforementioned evaluation, had ranked last in Brazil, with only 3.02% of students at the aimed level in reading, and penultimate place in writing, with only 1.84%, things became quite different. Being taught by Scliar Early Literacy System, seventy children were reading with fluency and comprehension and, above all, with pleasure, by the end of the first year, in 2017. I analyze two documents on early literacy public policies: The final version of the Common National Curricular Base (BRAZIL, MEC 2017) and the decree 9.765 of April 11, 2019, which establishes the National Literacy Policy and Iexplain why the lack of knowledge about advances in sciences such as linguistics, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology and neuroscience leads to failure in early literacy.

Keywords

• psicolinguística e educação
• políticas públicas de alfabetização
• avaliações nacionais e internacionais
• neurociência da leitura
• sistema scliar de alfabetização