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Teaching Children's Literature

Routledge eBooks, Nov 3, 2017

Creating Critical Classrooms

Routledge eBooks, Oct 1, 2020

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Jan 30, 2012

Much has been written about the need for readers to adopt a critical stance to understand how var... more Much has been written about the need for readers to adopt a critical stance to understand how various texts are working to position them as citizens and consumers in an increasingly globalized world. As Janks (2010) bluntly put it, "Texts have designs on us.... Critical reading, in combination with an ethic of social justice, is fundamental in order to protect our own rights and the rights of others" (p. 98). Similarly, in their discussion of how adolescent literacy might be reinvented, Moje, Young, Readence, and Moore (2000) suggested that students who become aware of how texts manipulate them "can become critical consumers and producers of text who challenge dominant meanings and realize that there is more than one way to read texts and their world" (p. 408). A critical approach to literacy instruction can be traced back to Freire (1970), who argued in favor of teaching oppressed people to "read the word and the world." Freire thought this type of reading would enable the oppressed to advocate for their own interests instead of encouraging them to accept the views of more powerful others as "neutral and natural" (Morrell, 2008, p. 114). Freire (1970) also called attention to "banking education," a model that positions students as passive empty vessels that teachers fill up with socially sanctioned knowledge. In the banking model, reading is seen as simple decoding without paying attention to the interests of authors and how texts are often written to support those interests. In a move that challenges recent efforts to standardize literacy education and silence voices of dissent, Morrell (2009) called for studies that attempt to translate critical pedagogy into K-12 literacy practice and offer "a model of pedagogy that privileges attention to critique and to social justice as much as it does the development of sanctioned academic skills" (p. 99). What does a critical stance look like and how will we know if our students are achieving one? Delbridge (2008) provided an example in her description of a student who read "against an author" (p. 164) she perceived to be stereotyping the residents of a community where she once lived. This student used her knowledge While critical thinking is a common language arts goal, it is not easily achieved. Encouraging readers to talk back to texts is one approach that shows promise.

Supporting Literature Discussions

Routledge eBooks, Sep 21, 2022

Why Reading Aloud Is Crucial

Routledge eBooks, Sep 21, 2022

Choosing Books

Routledge eBooks, Sep 21, 2022

Teaching Children's Literature

Creating Curricular Invitations

Teaching Children's Literature. It's Critical!

ELT Journal, 2013

Preface. Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Why Reading Aloud is Crucial 3. Teaching Reading with... more Preface. Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Why Reading Aloud is Crucial 3. Teaching Reading with Literature 4. Choosing Books: Diversity Counts 5. Supporting Literacy Discussions 6. Inquiry into the World through Focused Studies 7. Multimodal Responses to Literature 8. Language Study: Lingering in Text 9. Challenging the Challengers 10. Literature Response Strategies. References: Children's and Adolescent Literature. References: Professional Publications. Index

Supporting Literature Discussions

Teaching Children's Literature, 2017

Literature Response Strategies

Teaching Children's Literature

Chapter Seven / Critical Social Practices: Focusing on the Sociopolitical

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2012

The present study aimed to reveal how learners of Chinese as a foreign language use mobile techno... more The present study aimed to reveal how learners of Chinese as a foreign language use mobile technology to study Chinese outside the classroom. Researchers used sociocultural perspectives to frame the study and grounded theory to analyze data. Eleven English-speaking students who had learned Chinese for different years at a midwestern university participated in the study. They answered 23 major questions by submitting journal entries and participating in an interview. Compared with computer assisted language learning, mobile devices bring changes to tutorial functions, social computing, and gaming. Participants heavily explored tutorial functions, used mobile devices differently from computers for social computing, and showed interest in gaming. Although participants were enthusiastic about using mobile devices to learn Chinese, the number of applications they used and the variety of activities they engaged in were limited. Findings suggest that the effective incorporation of mobile d...

Language Study

Teaching Children's Literature

Books across the Curriculum

Teaching Children's Literature

Responding to Literature through the Arts

Teaching Children's Literature

Classroom Practices that Support Taking Social Action

Teaching K-8 Reading, 2020

Challenging the Challengers

Teaching Children's Literature, 2017

Why Reading Aloud is Crucial

Teaching Children's Literature, 2017

Teaching Children's Literature

Routledge eBooks, Nov 3, 2017

Creating Critical Classrooms

Routledge eBooks, Oct 1, 2020

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Jan 30, 2012

Much has been written about the need for readers to adopt a critical stance to understand how var... more Much has been written about the need for readers to adopt a critical stance to understand how various texts are working to position them as citizens and consumers in an increasingly globalized world. As Janks (2010) bluntly put it, "Texts have designs on us.... Critical reading, in combination with an ethic of social justice, is fundamental in order to protect our own rights and the rights of others" (p. 98). Similarly, in their discussion of how adolescent literacy might be reinvented, Moje, Young, Readence, and Moore (2000) suggested that students who become aware of how texts manipulate them "can become critical consumers and producers of text who challenge dominant meanings and realize that there is more than one way to read texts and their world" (p. 408). A critical approach to literacy instruction can be traced back to Freire (1970), who argued in favor of teaching oppressed people to "read the word and the world." Freire thought this type of reading would enable the oppressed to advocate for their own interests instead of encouraging them to accept the views of more powerful others as "neutral and natural" (Morrell, 2008, p. 114). Freire (1970) also called attention to "banking education," a model that positions students as passive empty vessels that teachers fill up with socially sanctioned knowledge. In the banking model, reading is seen as simple decoding without paying attention to the interests of authors and how texts are often written to support those interests. In a move that challenges recent efforts to standardize literacy education and silence voices of dissent, Morrell (2009) called for studies that attempt to translate critical pedagogy into K-12 literacy practice and offer "a model of pedagogy that privileges attention to critique and to social justice as much as it does the development of sanctioned academic skills" (p. 99). What does a critical stance look like and how will we know if our students are achieving one? Delbridge (2008) provided an example in her description of a student who read "against an author" (p. 164) she perceived to be stereotyping the residents of a community where she once lived. This student used her knowledge While critical thinking is a common language arts goal, it is not easily achieved. Encouraging readers to talk back to texts is one approach that shows promise.

Supporting Literature Discussions

Routledge eBooks, Sep 21, 2022

Why Reading Aloud Is Crucial

Routledge eBooks, Sep 21, 2022

Choosing Books

Routledge eBooks, Sep 21, 2022

Teaching Children's Literature

Creating Curricular Invitations

Teaching Children's Literature. It's Critical!

ELT Journal, 2013

Preface. Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Why Reading Aloud is Crucial 3. Teaching Reading with... more Preface. Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Why Reading Aloud is Crucial 3. Teaching Reading with Literature 4. Choosing Books: Diversity Counts 5. Supporting Literacy Discussions 6. Inquiry into the World through Focused Studies 7. Multimodal Responses to Literature 8. Language Study: Lingering in Text 9. Challenging the Challengers 10. Literature Response Strategies. References: Children's and Adolescent Literature. References: Professional Publications. Index

Supporting Literature Discussions

Teaching Children's Literature, 2017

Literature Response Strategies

Teaching Children's Literature

Chapter Seven / Critical Social Practices: Focusing on the Sociopolitical

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2012

The present study aimed to reveal how learners of Chinese as a foreign language use mobile techno... more The present study aimed to reveal how learners of Chinese as a foreign language use mobile technology to study Chinese outside the classroom. Researchers used sociocultural perspectives to frame the study and grounded theory to analyze data. Eleven English-speaking students who had learned Chinese for different years at a midwestern university participated in the study. They answered 23 major questions by submitting journal entries and participating in an interview. Compared with computer assisted language learning, mobile devices bring changes to tutorial functions, social computing, and gaming. Participants heavily explored tutorial functions, used mobile devices differently from computers for social computing, and showed interest in gaming. Although participants were enthusiastic about using mobile devices to learn Chinese, the number of applications they used and the variety of activities they engaged in were limited. Findings suggest that the effective incorporation of mobile d...

Language Study

Teaching Children's Literature

Books across the Curriculum

Teaching Children's Literature

Responding to Literature through the Arts

Teaching Children's Literature

Classroom Practices that Support Taking Social Action

Teaching K-8 Reading, 2020

Challenging the Challengers

Teaching Children's Literature, 2017

Why Reading Aloud is Crucial

Teaching Children's Literature, 2017