A playful approach to teaching sentence structure in Portuguese

Abstract

This article presents a proposal for teaching grammar Portuguese Language based on the assumptions of Playful Education mediated by Analog Visual Resources (Costa, 2018) and associated with the methodologies of the Grammatical Laboratory (Duarte, 2008), Active Learning (Pilati, 2017) and Meaningful Learning (Ausubel, 2003). The work highlights the relevance of learning grammar for better understanding of texts, covering aspects related to the development of linguistic awareness. A didactic sequence is presented for the teaching of the basic structure of the sentence in Portuguese (constituted by the SVC formation: Subject – Verb – Complement). Approaching the theme from previously selected texts, the sequence culminates with the application of the didactic game Trio Sintactico, elaborated with analog materials - cardboard tokens and vertical cardboard panels - whose instructional objective is the formation of grammatically correct sentences with subject, verb and complement, reinforcing the basic concepts of agreement and verbal regency. It is expected that students to acquire explicit knowledge about the contents covered, so that they can use them correctly in other situations, at school and outside it.