Creating Critical Classrooms Reading and Writing with an Edge [Paperback]

This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacyin all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms, Creating Critical Classroomsmeets a huge need for a practical, theoretically based text on this topic.

Pedagogical features in each chapter

Teacher-researcher Vignette

Theories that Inform Practice

Critical Literacy Chart

Thought Piece

Invitations for Disruption

Lingering Questions

New in the Second Edition

End-of-chapter Voices from the Field

More upper elementary-grade examples

New text sets drawn from Classroom Resources

Streamlined, restructured, revised, and updated throughout

Expanded Companion Website now includes annotated Classroom Resources; Text Sets; Resources by Chapter; Invitations for Students; Literacy Strategies; Additional Resources

Brief Contents
Foreword / Linda Christensen
Introduction
Chapter One / Overview: Why Do We Need an Instructional Theory of Critical Literacy?
Chapter Two / Personal and Cultural Resources: Using Life Experiences as an Entr?e into Critical Literacy
Chapter Three / Cultural Resources: Using Popular Culture to Promote Critical Practice
Chapter Four / Cultural Resources: Using Childrens and Young Adult Litl