Critical Literacy Webcast

Here are some notes that I took for the Critical Literacy Webcast:

1. What are Critical Literacies?

• Students challenge the text by asking question and raising their own ideas about the text
• Students interpret what the author was trying to say
• Literacy is everywhere and needs to be looked at as a whole (reminds me of LMC, "educate the whole student")
• Across curriculum questioning
• Be an active reader - participate
• multi-perspective

2. Critical Literacies for All Ages

• Four Literacy Practice
• Code Breakers - every letter has a sound, etc.
• Text Participants - prior knowledge and experience
• Text Users - form, audience, purpose
• Text Critic - comprehension
• Critical Literacy = Creative Literacy
• Goal: Confident and independent students (know themselves as a learner, good and bad)
• Teacher Clip: predictions and thoughts (part of Common Core); read-a-loud/think-a-loud, collaboration with others, oral/writing/reading

3. Loaded Language

• Language is powerful!
• Language is used to make readers feel a certain way (same idea as videos but just with words)
• Examples: "raided" "sweatshop" instead of saying factory (sweatshop is viewed as a negative word whereas factory is not)
• Vocabulary exposure