Critical Literacy: Recent Episodes
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Children’s literature has played a major role in elementary school classrooms for years. The widespread use of literature across the school curricula has created multiple opportunities for children and their teachers to interact with these literacy texts in a variety of ways, including critically reading and analyzing books with an eye for how those texts work to position readers in particular ways.
The take on critical literacy presented here is not about the books per se but about creating opportunities for critical conversations and making available different social positionings for students as they engage with texts: Social position considers how peers perceive each other and themselves as members of a community. (Vasquez, 2010)
On this site are reviews of books from the Larissa Gerstel Critical Literacy collection at American University in Washington DC. The reviews take the form of podcasts created by my undergraduate and graduate students at American U. Please feel free to browse, listen and enjoy!
Vivian Vasquez
Vasquez, V.(2010). Getting Beyong I Like the Book: Creating Spaces for Critical Literacy in K-6 Settings. Newark,DE: International Reading Association.
A Podcast by Dan
Click here for a review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
or use the player below.
For more on critical literacy go to
www.vivianvasquez.com or
www.clippodcast.com
A Podcast By MaddieClick here to listen to a review of Wangari's Trees
or use the player below.
For more on critical literacy go to
www.vivianvasquez.com or
www.clippodcast.com
A Podcast By Sari S.Click here for a review of Virgie Goes to School
For more on critical literacy go to
www.vivianvasquez.com or
www.clippodcast.com
A Podcast By KelcieClick here for a review of Skinny
or use the player below.
For more on critical literacy go to
www.vivianvasquez.com or
www.clippodcast.com
A Podcast by LiamClick here for a review of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
or use the player below.
For more on critical literacy go to
www.vivianvasquez.com or
www.clippodcast.com
A podcast by Danielle.
Click here for a review of Popularity Papers
or use the player below.
For more on critical literacy go to
www.vivianvasquez.com or
www.clippodcast.com