In this study, we analyze poems written in 2006 by fourth and fifth graders from public elementary schools (8 years old at the time) from several Brazilian states, for the Programa Escrevendo o Futuro. This program, developed by the Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação, Cultura e Ação Comunitária - CENPEC, is part of a prize created and sponsored by the Itaú Social Foundation. More than a mere writing contest, Escrevendo o Futuro is a teacher training program, which provides the participating schools with guidance booklets for the development of writing workshops on the genres poem, memoir and opinion articles. The study's perspective is to identify how the texts are written by students undergoing a systematic learning process regarding a specific genre. With this purpose, we begin with an initial discussion on the conception of genre followed by a presentation of the context in which the texts were written, and then analyze the students' poems considering their adequacy to the genre.
Written Production in School; Genre; Poem
