How do you define critical literacy?
Critical literacy is having students dig deeper for an understanding of what they are learning through using supportive text or media.
What ideas do you have for fostering critical literacy among your students after reading the article?
There are many things that can be done to add to the classroom to enrich learning. Having supplemental and multiple texts available to compare or contrast and interpret stories. Text with differing views can help students to analyze and question information. In teaching students by using critical literacy skills can help them become better students and more informed on issues. It can help students find the joy in learning because they are searching and questioning information instead of being fed knowledge. We as teachers are helping to change the future by encouraging our students to search information.
Hi Rebecca: I like how you mentioned that you can make multiple texts available to students as one means of fostering critical literacy. In history especially, it seems vital to introduce the same topic from many perspectives...for instance, you can introduce the Civil War from a Northern perspective, a Southern perspective, an economic perspective, a legal perspective, a technological perspective, and so forth. Thanks for your posting!
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