Critical Literacy Lesson Plans. From critical media literacy worksheets to magazines critical literacy videos quickly find teacher reviewed educational resources. Critical literacy lesson framework when the students are comfortable using one or more critical literacy strategies we organize our lessons using the literacy lesson framework presented in figure 3 which emphasizes engaging guiding and extending students thinking.
Critical literacy helps students to read texts in deeper more meaningful ways by encouraging readers of all ages to become more actively engaged and use their power to construct understanding. Grades 6 8 this is a. Lewison seely flint and van sluys describe four dimensions of critical literacy.
Although there is no set definition of critical literacy it essentially involves examining the relationship between language and power in a text.
Reading high quality books increases children s overall language competence and the process of reading listening questioning and responding to a story provides a foundation for reflective and critical thinking pressley 2006. As an introduction this lesson addresses the first two dimensions. Critical literacy helps students to read texts in deeper more meaningful ways by encouraging readers of all ages to become more actively engaged and use their power to construct understanding. This is an essential yet difficult skill to develop.
