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Critical Literacy

Critical Literacy. Brigitte Heimbueger December 2005. What is Critical Literacy?. It provides students with the opportunity to look critically at literature and question what the are reading.

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Critical Literacy

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  1. Critical Literacy Brigitte Heimbueger December 2005

  2. What is Critical Literacy? • It provides students with the opportunity to look critically at literature and question what the are reading. • Students can become empowered to take on, discuss, and question such issues as social justice and equality.

  3. What is Critical Literacy? “Critical Literacy helps teachers and students expand their reasoning, seek out multiple perspectives, and become active thinkers,” (McLaughlin & DeVoogd, 2004, p.52).

  4. Classroom Practices • Question literature from varying perspectives (such as The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. (Henry, 2005) • Students can begin by discussing personal experience, “have you ever felt as though you were being left out or ignored?” Then you can introduce a text which may further students thoughts and ideas. (Ciardiello, 2004, p.143)

  5. Critical Inquiry Components Ciardiello (2004) provides this model for critical inquiry. He then went through each section and provided possible classroom applications. (139) He also offers a variety of texts as resources for teachers use in the classroom.

  6. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy “…Educators traditionally have attempted to insert culture into the education, instead of inserting education into the culture” (Ladson-Billings, 1995, p.159) Students must come first in our classrooms. We need to consider the knowledge and experience that our students bring along with them into the school community. We need to create a strong bridge between the school and home communities.

  7. Future Implications • I plan to implement critical literacy into my classroom alongside other literacy teaching models. • Critical literacy is something that I need to practice with because I have not had personal experience with it. • Critical literacy is both empowering and powerful!

  8. Fishing Day By: Andrea Davis Pinkney • Listen while I read a section of this story. • Think about what questions you may have or your students might have about what is occurring in the story and the perspective from which the author writes.

  9. What can we do… • Let us work together to empower students. • Let us strive to use our position as educators to open eyes wide to the possibilities that lie in education

  10. Thank you for listening! Good Luck with all of your future endeavors!

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