This article, focusing on the school newspaper, discusses the language teaching-learning from the concepts of genre and literacy. It is initially presents, in terms of the Brazilian context, an overview of the recent discussion and methodologies on language teaching-learning. Then, the article provides a brief overview of the work with newspaper at school and a review of studies involving experiments with school newspaper. Toward the end, we present a proposal to work with the school newspaper, which also serves as a backdrop for other reflections.
genre; literacy; teaching-learning; school newspaper; newspaper