What Does it Mean to Comprehend?
- Literal comprehension
- Inferential comprehension
- Symbolic comprehension
- Organizing ideas-graphic organizers/summary
- Connections-self, text, world
- Strategies - Reread, take notes, read slower, think about the meaning, visual
- Critical Literacy
Now that you can read, who is controlling your thoughts?
Critical Literacy is Active Analysis: Foundational Concepts
Challenging the text or ideal - What perspective does this text take?
Reality is complex
Don’t reduce things to the most simple
Problematize simple statements
Multiple perspectives are helpful in understanding any situation
Critical Literacy is About Justice & Politics/Power Relationships
Reader’s Methods Needed
Problem PosingJuxtaposing texts and picturesImagining alternative texts
Problem Posing
After reading use the following questions to inspire critical literacy:What is the author’s intention?What is favored? Who is marginalized?What are other perspectives?Action steps?
Unless we teach our children to comprehend at a deeper level, we will always be at the mercy of people who have the media and the money to manipulate the flow of ideas in our culture. We want to be free and just. As teachers, that is more than a phrase, it is our quest. May we always strive to be worthy it.
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