It has been argued that “Fostering a critical stance in very young readers can have surprising results, for both children and teachers” (BOURKE, Ryan T. First Graders and Fairy Tales: One Teacher's Action Research of Critical Literacy. The Reading Teacher 62 (4),2008,304-312, p.304).
This quotation is in line with the following goals for the teaching of English defined by the Municipal Secretariat of Education, São Paulo (2019), except: