Reading and understanding medicine insert leaflets

Abstract

A third grade teacher of the Dr. Cardoso de Almeida State School, in Botucatu, São Paulo, is developing a medicine insert leaflet reading project with her students. The purpose is to allow the student to perceive the importance reading has in day-to-day life and to show how important and how useful it is in bringing people basic information. The activities were carried out considering the difficulties students have to understand technical/scientific terms, making them research meanings in the dictionary and register them in papers elaborated and sent for joint evaluation by the student’s parents. The teacher noticed how dedicated and interested the students were and how their parents collaborated with the project.