This article is part of a much broader documentary study whose purpose was to analyze the literacy policies for children implemented during the period from 2003 to 2012. The aim of the research is to understand the guidelines provided by the Ministry of Education for a basic education period of nine years as far as childhood literacy is concerned. Thus, the texts which formed the database for the analysis were the policy document entitled Nine-year Elementary School: general guidelines (2004) and the compilation of texts called The six-year-old, written language and nine years of basic education: guidelines for working with written language with six-year-old children (2009). The study concludes that the Ministry of Education's proposals are still guided by the notion of cultural deprivation; therefore, to a large extent, the guidelines for the teaching of written language are rooted in the acquisition process of skills that aim to meet those needs.
Childhood literacy; Reading; Writing; Nine-year Elementary school