This article presents its author's established relations between the results of research in literacy among teachers of children and teenagers and also adults and her observations developed in schools of Curitiba's community with trainees from the discipline of Teaching Practice for Elementary School in Pedagogy Course of UFPR. This article presents reports from EJA (Adult and Teenagers Education) students as a demonstrative of classroom reality, as well as theoretical analyses references from linguistics, psycholinguistics and pedagogy about literacy. This article also suggests a literacy teachers improvement.
teaching training; literacy; writing and reading learning