This search was a bit more difficult that I imagined it would be. While trying to search I came up with many sites that were no longer accessible and very few had discussions regarding critical literacy. Here are the four websites that I found.
This website discusses how important it is for literacy to meet the needs to our diverse student population. It discusses storytelling as a way of including student’s cultures within the classroom. Much of what we have learned about making connections between a student’s culture and the classroom are discussed here as well. A link is also available with a list of criteria for evaluating multicultural materials (http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li4lk26.htm). Vivian is also quoted on this page; “Leland, Harste, Ociepka, Lewison, and Vasquez (1999) consider multicultural literature as part of a "new kind of 'critical literacy curriculum' which focuses on building students' awareness of how systems of meaning and power affect people and the lives they lead" (p. 70).
This website examines two approaches to children’s literacy: bibliotherapy and critical literacy. Examples of critical literacy are included along with approaches for building critical literacy in the classroom.
This website allows for you to search for children’s books in certain curriculum areas. You can also search for books by grade level. Activities and further resources are also included when you click on some of the curriculum areas, such as slavery and Native Americans.
This website examines the nursery rhyme Mother Goose. Social and political uses are discussed along with discussions that a teacher can have with younger and older students about this nursery rhyme. There is also information about the rhymes and research that could be done about this nursery rhyme.
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Hey Katie,
I also had a problem with sites that were no longer available. Bad Luck!!! Also, what is bibliotherapy, I have never heard the term? And does the Mother Goose website examine other nursery rhymes in the same way? Do you think it was more efftive for websites to look at specific books or tales or have a more broad perspective?
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