Genre-Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4-8

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.

Auteur

Danielle E. Sachdeva, PhD, is Associate Professor of Literacy and Elementary Education at the University of North Georgia, USA. She is the author of Genre-Based Strategies for Promoting Critical Literacy in Grades 4-8 (2020) and the editor of Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals and Supporting Students' Intellectual Freedom in Schools: The Right to Read. She is a former President of the Children's Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Literacy Association.