Digital children’s literature: screen reading and new forms of socialization at school

Abstract

This article presents the results of a doctoral research and discusses contemporary reading and new forms of socialization at school in dialogue with digital children’s literature. How the childhood literature presents on the screen? What characteristics, resources and functionalities define them? What has been produced in digital children’s literature in Brazil? How children reed these devices in the collective space of the school? How does reading on the screen impact socialization processes at school? To answer these questions, proposal actions involving digital children’s literature in a group of children with 5 and 6 years old in a public federal childhood school. This text is organized in three parts: the first brings considerations about digital children’s literature, then presents moments that address the collaborative reading of apps and the sharing of knowledge produced by a community of readers, finally, in the final considerations, discusses the experience of reading and talking about what is read.

Key words:Digital Children’s Literature. Kindergarten. Community of readers.