CR4YR

Changing Results for Young Readers

  • WELCOME
  • CR4YR PRIMARY
    • Recommended Pre-Reading for Participants
    • Session 1: Building the Foundations for Learning
    • Session 2: Core Components of Literacy Instruction (Part 1)
    • Session 3: Core Components of Literacy Instruction (Part 2)
    • Session 4: Putting Research Into Action
  • CR4YR INTERMEDIATE
    • Session 1: A Balanced Literacy Program
    • Session 2: Fluency and Oral Language
    • Session 3: Comprehension
    • Session 4: Touchback
  • CR4YR K-7
  • ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
    • Professional Resources for Literacy Instruction
    • Websites for Literacy Instruction
    • What is Self-Regulated Learning?
      • Teacher Inquiry Project: Redesigning a Classroom to Foster Self-Regulated Learning
    • Workshops and Other Literacy In-Service Initiatives
    • Indigenizing the Literacy Curriculum
    • Literacy44

Session 6 Critical Literacy

criticalpagehd2000x200Critical literacy is a skill necessary to navigate our social world. In this session, we discuss critical literacy with the following learning targets in mind:

  • To understand the meaning and the role of critical literacy
  • To explore strategies for the primary and intermediate classrooms
  • To examine the connection between critical literacy and multi-literacies

  • Word Knowledge
  • Comprehension
  • Reading and Fluency
  • Developmental Sequence of Reading
  • Self-Regulation
  • Critical Literacy
  • Assessment

  • CR4YR K-7:
    Critical Literacy

  • Cooperative Children’s Book Center
  • Children’s Literature
  • Connecting Practice and Research: Critical Literacy Guide
  • Learn NC – Critical Literacy
  • Literacy 44
  • Using Read-Alouds with Critical Literacy Literature in K–3 Classrooms
  • ReadWriteThing.org – Seeing Multiple Perspectives
  • Looking at Race and Racial Identity Through Critical Literacy in Children’s Books
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