Contos da floresta: incentivando a leitura com o uso de jogo rpg

Abstract

Among the challenges of modern education, encouraging reading is one of the most challenging. Several studies report that young people are increasingly losing interest in reading, a fact that contributes to the growing functional illiteracy in our country. As a result, teachers and educators are seeking solutions to make school activities more dynamic and attractive to students' interest in engaging in the activity. These solutions include reading activities, in order to make it increasingly present in the lives of young people. Games can contribute as a methodology to increase the incentive to read and as a tool to assist educators. Thus, the objective of the work is to develop an RPG game that sharpens the habit of reading in children and adolescents. To this end, the station rotation method was used as a structure for creating the game, a method that is part of hybrid learning, which uses activity stations in which each station contains different activities on a given theme, in order to make learning more exciting and maintain attention and focus on the proposed activities for longer. The game was developed by the RPG Playground engine, based on three children's stories by the Brothers Grimm, each of which was used to create an activity station, which tells different parts of that story directly or indirectly. The activities proposed within the game immerse the player in the stories, stimulating their curiosity to read the entire works presented there by breaking the linearity of the stories. The proposed game is available online for free and can be accessed on the RPG Playground platform (https://rpgplayground.com) by young people and educators seeking to encourage students to read.