Lesson - Critical Literacy Resource List

The following resources support the development of high-level thinking and questioning skills for both students and teachers:

Connecting Practice and Research: Critical Literacy Guide

Connecting Practice and Research: Critical Literacy Guide (Formerly published on EduGains; PDF)

The critical literacy guide defines critical literacy, identifies key messages related to critical literacy in action, and provides excellent questions to promote high-level thinking and engagement with texts.

Critical Literacy: Capacity Building Series (The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat)

https://www.onted.ca/monographs/capacity-building-series/critical-literacy

This document provides an excellent overview of the core concepts behind critical literacy and provides a variety of strategies and resources teachers can utilize to incorporate critical literacy into their classrooms.

Guides to Effective Instruction in Literacy Grades 4-6 Volume One (Ministry of Education, 2009)

https://www.onted.ca/monographs/print-series/guides-to-effective-instruction-in-literacy

This guide provide teachers with a framework and practical resources for planning a successful literacy program that equips all students to grow as strategic readers, writers, talkers, listeners, and thinkers. It includes the following strategies which are used in many of these units: Questioning the Author, Ranking Ladder, Four Corners, Anticipation Guides, Value Line

Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches Grades 7-12, Subject Specific Examples Language/English, Grades 7-9 (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2004)

https://www.onted.ca/topics/literacy/think-literacy

These documents provide numerous structures, strategies and templates, used throughout these units, including: It Says-I Say-And So, R.A.F.T., Text Message Analysis Sheet, Anticipation Guides, T-charts, etc.