This work refers to the PhD thesis linked to the project "Literacy with literacy: initial and continuing training and teaching work in public schools in the southern region of Santa Catarina", by the Observatory of Education, funded by CAPES/INEP. The purpose of the study was to check whether verbal language with images and/or only images was included in discursive practices for the development of orality and writing in the literacy process. It was characterized as a case study based on participant observation of teaching practices in two third-grade classes in the nine-year elementary school in the AMUREL - SC region. The research describes discursive sequences of pedagogical practices that took place in these classes and which led to checking whether genres that included images circulated in the classroom and thus understanding how language with images was used in teaching.