Retextualization of comics to short stories: a proposal for
pedagogical mediation using metacognitive strategies.
Retextualization, metacognition, reading and textual production.
Reading, writing, understanding, interpreting and questioning, regardless of the time and the
constant technological developments, are fundamental activities in the formation of the
individual and the school is the great holder of the integral formation of the student. In view
of this reality, the objective of this research was to expand students' literacy from working
with two textual genres: comic books and short stories, using the retextualization process for
the development of writing, based on from the studies by Marcuschi (2005) and Dell'isola
(2007) and from metacognitive strategies for textual understanding based on the writings of
Flavell (1979) and Brown (1982). A diagnostic activity was applied to the students of the
ninth grade, subjects of this research, who were part of a group formed only by students with
an age-grade lag from Seroedica’s school, in Rio de Janeiro, and it was noticed the difficulty
they had to understand what was happening in the story, resulting in incoherent narratives that
clashed with the base text. Then, 09 activities were elaborated, being 03 focused on the use of
metacognition in textual interpretation and in the recognition of the narrative structure and 06
of writing and analysis of the text to finally carry out the process of retextualization in the
final diagnosis. It was noticed the evolution of students at each stage, verified by them
through the application of a questionnaire to assess whether the work done in the classroom
had been satisfactory. Then, positive feedback was obtained from the students, demonstrating
the efficiency of applying activities with metacognitive strategies aimed at reading
competence. In addition, using retextualization made students develop writing and recognize
the structures of different genres. Therefore, the importance of developing efficient reading
and writing activities to mediate the relationship between students and the different ways of
working with textual genres is emphasized.