We analysed the rewriting process of texts produced with literary purpose by fourth grade elementary school students from Curitiba, Brazil. Rewritten texts retained unexplored potential even after teacher revision, once rewriting was usually limited to grammar and spelling correction. Text aesthetic effect of substandard quality was due, in great part, to the lack of opportunity of the student-author to test the effects of his text on fellow students and teachers and to rewrite it aiming at improving it to achieve literary text characteristics.
rewriting; text production; literary text; elementary school