Genre-Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4â "8 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440863165)

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.

Author: Danielle Hartsfield, Sue Kimmel
ISBN-10: 1440863164
ISBN-13: 9781440863165
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2019
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 95