This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms, "Creating Critical Classrooms" meets a huge need for a practical, theoretically based text on this topic.

Pedagogical features in each chapter

Teacher-researcher Vignette

Theories that Inform Practice

Critical Literacy Chart

Thought Piece

Invitations for Disruption

Lingering Questions

New in the Second Edition

End-of-chapter "Voices from the Field"

More upper elementary-grade examples

New text sets drawn from "Classroom Resources"

Streamlined, restructured, revised, and updated throughout

Expanded Companion Website now includes annotated Classroom Resources; Text Sets; Resources by Chapter; Invitations for Students; Literacy Strategies; Additional Resources "

This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms, "Creating Critical Classrooms" meets a huge need for a practical, theoretically based text on this topic.

Pedagogical features in each chapter

Teacher-researcher Vignette

Theories that Inform Practice

Critical Literacy Chart

Thought Piece

Invitations for Disruption

Lingering Questions

New in the Second Edition

End-of-chapter "Voices from the Field"

More upper elementary-grade examples

New text sets drawn from "Classroom Resources"

Streamlined, restructured, revised, and updated throughout

Expanded Companion Website now includes annotated Classroom Resources; Text Sets; Resources by Chapter; Invitations for Students; Literacy Strategies; Additional Resources "