Portuguese Year 3: A whole book: listening, reading and planning a reading project
Portuguese, Year 3 (Portugal): Listen to stories and traditional texts, read whole books, and plan your own reading from what you like.
Whole works, heard or read
Literary works are stories, poems and plays. You can hear them read aloud, or read them yourself. Some texts come from popular tradition: nobody knows who wrote them, and they were passed from mouth to mouth. They are tales, lengalengas (traditional rhymes), riddles, songs and proverbs such as «Devagar se vai ao longe» (“Slow and steady goes far”). To read a work in full means to go from the first page to the last, by your own choice or because someone reads it to you. A reading project is a plan to read several works you choose.
Only the whole work tells the whole story
A story only makes full sense at the end, when you know how the problem is solved. A poem is best understood when you have read all its verses. And a play needs every scene. When you hear a work read aloud, you also learn new words and how a good text sounds. Traditional texts keep the memory of many families, and that is why they are worth listening to. Choosing what you like to read makes it easier to keep going until the end.
Marta's reading project
Marta likes animals and poems. Step 1: in class, everybody says what they like to read. Step 2: Marta picks three works from the class library: a story about animals, a book of poems and a short play. Step 3: she plans it: 10 pages a day, and a break on the weekend. Step 4: after each reading she fills in a card: title, writer, what she read, what she thought. Step 5: at the end, she tells the class about her favourite work.
Skipping ahead or giving up halfway
There are two common mistakes. The first is to skip pages, or to read only the end to find out what happens: you miss how the characters got there. The second is to give up halfway because the book is hard. Choose better before starting, by what you like, and talk it over with your teacher. Note: to «read in full» does not always mean reading alone. If a teacher or a family member reads the whole work aloud and you listen from start to finish, that also counts.
Where you meet whole works
You meet whole works in the school library, in the book your teacher reads a chapter at a time, or when a grandparent tells you a tale they heard as a child. You use a reading plan when you borrow a book and decide how many pages to read each day. Saying at the end «I liked it because…» prepares you to talk about books with friends and to choose the next one.
Test what you learned
Which of these is a text from popular tradition, passed from mouth to mouth?
- a) A news report published today
- b) A poem signed by a living author in a new book
- c) A lengalenga that grandparents say and teach to their grandchildren
Correct answer: c) A lengalenga that grandparents say and teach to their grandchildren — Yes: nobody knows who wrote it, and it passes from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation.
Marta likes animals and poems, and the class talked about what each one likes. What is the best next step for her reading project?
- a) Pick a book of poems and a story about animals, and decide how many pages to read each day
- b) Read only the last page of each book to see how it ends
- c) Copy a classmate's list without thinking about what she likes
Correct answer: a) Pick a book of poems and a story about animals, and decide how many pages to read each day — Yes: she chooses from what she likes and makes a plan she can follow.
What does «to read a work in full» mean?
- a) Reading only the pages with pictures
- b) Going from beginning to end, by yourself or listening to someone read it
- c) Reading only the chapters that seem easier
Correct answer: b) Going from beginning to end, by yourself or listening to someone read it — Yes: what counts is to follow the whole work, whether you read it yourself or someone reads it to you.
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