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Robert Jean LeBlanc – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2024
Critical approaches to literature in secondary English require greater attention to narrative discourse. In this conceptual article, I provide interpretative tools from contemporary narratology and demonstrate their critical potential for high school English. In particular, I outline critical literacy's vital but overattentive focus on the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Arts, Critical Literacy, Novels
Amy S. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explored high school students' engagement with a unit where video games and video game materials were incorporated into an English Language Arts classroom. Over several weeks, students engaged with video game content and composed their own video games using the free online platform, Scratch. The purpose of the study was to…
Descriptors: Video Games, High School Students, Language Arts, Technology Uses in Education
Marcy Lubeck Wilburn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The aims of this qualitative study were (1) to understand the experiences of two middle school English Language Arts and Reading (ELAR) teachers as they planned and implemented critical literacy into a unit in their existing curriculum and (2) to understand the experiences of students as they engaged in a curriculum embedded with critical…
Descriptors: Influences, Critical Literacy, Middle School Teachers, Language Arts
Dan Stockwell – Eye on Education, 2025
This book can help you incorporate critical literacy pedagogy into your high school English Language Arts (ELA) classroom, so that your students can use what they study in class to work toward making a more just and equitable world. Through the acronym CHANGE, the book explores how critical literacy pedagogy can support students as they Challenge…
Descriptors: High School Students, Language Arts, Critical Literacy, English Teachers
Hadjioannou, Xenia; Cappiello, Mary Ann; Bandré, Patricia; Burgess, Matthew; Crawford, Patricia; Dávila, Denise; Gardner, Roberta Price; Johnston, Kari; Lowery, Ruth; Stewart, Melissa – National Council of Teachers of English, 2023
Contemporary nonfiction for young people plays a crucial role in the reading and writing lives of K-12 students. It is a rich and compelling genre that supports students' development as critically, visually, and informationally literate 21st century thinkers and creators. Unlike many textbooks and materials written for online or print-based school…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Nonfiction, Literature, Teaching Methods
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LaMear, Rachel; von Gillern, Sam – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This study investigates how young elementary children engage with conceptions of gender in connection to video gameplay in the language arts classroom. During a three-week unit on video game literacies in a multiage lab school, children learned about, played, discussed, and wrote about video games. Student writing, game reviews, and literature…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Gender Differences, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Mary F. Wright – Voices from the Middle, 2024
This article discusses four exemplary activities to highlight imaginative approaches that encourage critical literacy: building a jackdaw, responding to text through multimodal journaling, engaging in dramatic roleplay, and practicing multi-genre writing. Each activity connects imaginative approaches to critical literacy as learners view the world…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Creativity, Preservice Teachers
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Kerkhoff, Shea N. – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
Understanding global perspectives and international cultures is important because of increasing global mobility, digital connections, and national chauvinism. As students engage with diverse others in schools and online, they need global, critical, and ethical understandings of language, literacy, and culture. From a critical cosmopolitan lens,…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods, Global Approach
Jessica J. DePamphilis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The required literature (frequently referred to as "the canon") taught in the secondary English Language Arts curriculum often focuses on the "classics," which do not always connect to modern students or reflect their identities. This study sought to investigate how the ELA canon could be adapted to better reflect students'…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Curriculum Development, English Instruction, Student Centered Curriculum
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Ervin, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
Culturally sustaining pedagogy (Paris, 2012) has emerged as an essential way to value the evolution of culture among diverse learners. Discussions around teaching in a culturally sustaining manner in the English language arts classroom, specifically when teaching literary analysis, often address the need to incorporate multicultural literature so…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Ann Marie Smith; Enrika Hyseni; Erick Peña Garcia – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2023
This article explores the benefits and problems of teaching with challenged books in the English language arts classroom. Challenged books initiate important discussions and provide opportunities for students to explore diverse perspectives. Methods for helping teachers and schools prepare for potential challenges are also discussed. The authors…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Media Selection, Reading Material Selection, Censorship
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Barrett Rosser; M. E. Talian; Angela Crawford; Reed; Katie Burrows-Stone; June Freifelder; Jennifer Freed; Amy Stornaiuolo – English Journal, 2024
The digital is inextricably woven across people's everyday lives and literacy practices, and English educators are tasked with preparing students to be critical, ethical, and agentic inventors and consumers of digital text. What has crystallized for English educators is an awareness that facilitating "digital discourse"--or the multiple…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English Instruction, Ethics, Literacy
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Revelle, Carol – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2022
The Inquiry and Research strand of the 2017 ELAR TEKS for sixth through twelfth grade includes vertically aligned standards for teaching students critical media skills by questioning the reliability and credibility of sources, evaluating bias, and recognizing logical fallacies. This article describes how increased media saturation has led to…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Standardized Tests, Academic Standards
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Reynolds, Dan – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: Researchers and teachers have noted the power of students reading text sets or multiple texts on the same topic, and numerous articles have been published with examples of and frameworks for text set construction. This study aims to traces the theoretical assumptions of these frameworks and explores their distinct implications and…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Epistemology, Guidelines
Ashley Elizabeth Wolstein – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While teachers and schools across the country actively work to impart curricula that is relevant and meaningful to their students, the written standards and reading lists too often represent a Eurocentric perspective and reinforce inequities perpetuated by the status quo. Too frequently, teachers are inadequately supported with or provided…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Literature, Decolonization, Public Schools
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