8 de July de 2026
The Laboratory of Education is part of the 8th edition of the Portuguese Language Teachers’ Olympiad (OPLP), launched by the Ministry of Education on March 20, with the production of the handbook Learning to Study Texts: guidelines for teaching practice. The material was developed to support participating teachers and is part of the initiative’s set of pedagogical resources, which mobilizes teachers and students from the 6th to 9th grades of public schools across the country to improve the teaching of reading and writing.
The handbook is based on the Learning to Study Texts (AET) methodology, developed by Labedu and implemented for nearly a decade in partnership with public networks. The premise guiding the material is that producing texts of a certain genre involves mastering the knowledge and strategies necessary for reading and studying them. Therefore, it offers teachers intentional reading mediation strategies that help students understand not only what the text says, but how it says it, which encompasses its organization, linguistic choices, and meaning effects.
The methodology is organized into four articulated stages (before reading, during reading, deepening reading, and after reading) that form a continuous path strengthening a deeper and more critical reading comprehension. The handbook includes model plans illustrating this path with a text from each of the four genres featured in the Olympiad: poem, chronicle, biography, and opinion piece. In each case, the mediation questions, proposed records, and the focus of analysis are adjusted to the specificities of the genre, considering that reading a narrative text requires different strategies than those applied to an argumentative text, for example.
The presence of AET in the Olympiad is supported by a consolidated implementation history, which in 2026 promotes teacher training in the 217 municipalities of Maranhão and 6 in Bahia. This journey demonstrates how the pedagogical architecture proposed to support teachers in studying texts with students is robust enough to adapt to different genres, school stages, and institutional arrangements. Thus, it provides tools so that teachers have the means to ensure that students develop the ability to construct meaning from texts, which are central instruments for accessing knowledge produced by society.
“AET was built on a simple but powerful premise: that language can be a tool for teaching and learning, with depth, criticality, and student agency. Twelve years of research and implementation, in partnership with teachers and trainers from different educational networks, show how much the model plans allow for an intentional path in which students learn to think, speak, and better understand what they read, while teachers expand their didactic repertoire regarding reading. The Olympiad opens a unique opportunity to bring this proposal to teachers throughout Brazil and contribute to improving the quality of learning for children and adolescents as a whole,” says Nicole Paulet, executive director of Labedu.
The OPLP is part of the National School of Adolescence Policy and is technically coordinated by the Center for Open and Distance Education of the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). In this edition, teachers of the final years of Elementary School from public schools participating in the program are invited to develop practice reports in text and video based on the theme “The place where I live,” linking students’ written production to the appreciation of their local communities. Registration is open until April 30 through the official Olympiad website.
Access the Learning to Study Texts: guidelines for teaching practice handbook here.
Watch the launch webinar on the MEC YouTube channel.