Articles focus on the following: teaching of literature as a means to teaching reading comprehension; reading and discussing favorite stories; interactive literature in childhood literacy; new perspectives in teaching literature; construction of graphic aids in promoting and developing writing skills; recommended books for children and adolescents; early child literature and the history of early childhood; interpretation of stories in first grade; argumentative texts and their presentation in the classroom; evaluating story-telling in teacher training; identifying main idea and details in hypermedia texts and printed material; "Little Red Ridinghood" and the use of orthography (An explorative study with children in the early stages of literacy education); metacognition; a proposal for a reading program with a social focus; establishing a community of readers; an approach to writing autobiographies; a didactic program based on the search for an etymological dimension of words. (AS)