Draws on critical and radical change theory to equip both aspiring and practicing library and teacher candidates with practical, research-based ideas for enacting critical literacy practices in middle grade libraries and classrooms.
Genre Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4-8 provides strategies and lesson plans with additional resources and tools for school librarians and teachers to engage middle grade students in reading children's literature through a critical literacy lens.
To be critically literate readers and thinkers, students must learn to question what they read, asking themselves who wrote the text, why the text was written, and how the text positions its readers and others. Teaching students how to read from a critical literacy stance is a timely and relevant practice in a world in which text is available instantly and on nearly any mobile device. In many cases, preparation programs for school librarians and teachers do not teach candidates how to incorporate critical literacy practices in library and classroom settings. This book provides both pre-service and in-service school librarians and teachers with that professional development and guidance for teaching critical literacy in children's literature courses.
- Explains critical literacy strategies for educators to implement
- Identifies characteristics of popular genres in children's literature and how to evaluate materials in those genres
- Recommends titles to use in critical literacy instruction
- Guides readers to develop an understanding of the theoretical perspectives underpinning critical literacy
- Provides template lesson plans and tools to improve critical literacy instruction using genre strategies
"Teach critical thinking with book lists and strategies to use with different genres"--
This book outlines research-based strategies and resources school librarians and teachers can use to promote critical literacy in fourth through eighth grades. It emphasizes the idea that different genres require a different mindset from readers and uses specific books to discuss how students can learn to analyze them from a critical literacy perspective. The book consists of paired chapters that explain a specific genre or form of children's literature (informational books, narrative nonfiction and biographies, historical fiction, contemporary realistic fiction, fantasy, picture books, and graphic novels) and provide sample lesson plans modeling the application of a critical literacy strategy in the classroom or library. Genre chapters address their definition, how to evaluate key characteristics, and how each can be read from a critical literacy stance, and they include annotated bibliographies of 15 to 20 recommended titles published in 2014 or later, with an emphasis on social issues. The strategy chapters cover strategies like multimodal text sets, close reading and analyzing word choice, character study, literature circles, pairing texts, asynchronous discussion, and reframing and rewriting the story and include lesson plans aligned to standards, with one or two focus texts that help explain the strategy and incorporate contemporary or historic social issues. Each lesson plan includes information on the central focus, subject, grade, classroom context, standards, objectives, assessment, materials, academic language function, language demands, lesson introductions, instructional presentation, work sessions, lesson closure, and differentiation. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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