2024-09-022024-09-022024-09-022023-11-22https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/680This work presents a reflection on students' visual literacy based on the analysis of multimodal discursive genres in Portuguese language textbooks for elementary school II. We base our discussion around documentary research as a resource for collecting information and launching new methodological proposals that enable the development of visual literacy. To this end, we comment on the trajectory of language, the paths to visual literacy in society and in the school context, as well as discussing the role of the textbook and the ways in which the discursive genre was approached. In this sense, our study was based on texts by Bakhtin (1997), Rojo (2007) and Dionísio (2005) dealing with the concept of multimodality, based on the works of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) on visual literacy, the studies of Antunes (2007) on the contextualized Portuguese language class and new ways of reading with the contributions of Koch (1995). The study was carried out with a collection of Portuguese language books (Arirabá Conecta, 2024). We used qualitative research as a methodological approach. Data collection was carried out through the analysis of multimodal discursive genres that were arranged in Portuguese language textbooks (6th to 9th grades). Finally, the items analyzed revealed that the treatment given to multimodal discursive genres does not encourage the development of visual literacy in students.Acesso AbertoLetras - PortuguêsLetramento visualGênero discursivoMultimodalidadeLivro didáticoVisual literacyDiscursive genreMultimodalityTextbookTrabalho de Conclusão de CursoCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS