The Text in the Language Textbook: Three Brazilian Models

Resumo

There is a common sense that reading is the most basic activity in school. Even if the objective of reading can change from discipline to discipline, we can say that reading is central to all of them. The reading activities in school can be developed in many ways with different kinds of texts, but they usually have their support in the same reading material: the textbook. Therefore the textbook isn’t only a fundamental tool to improve reading activities in school but also a very important object of research about schooling.