Term
Summer 2023
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MALED
Facilitator(s)
Jana Lo Bello Miller
Content Expert
Kay Moon
Abstract
Due to technology and social media, students now have access to an overwhelming amount of information at the tip of their fingers. It can be difficult for both children and adults to filter through this information and decipher facts from opinions. Elementary teachers should be working to teach their students how to view all media — books, articles, videos, photos, podcasts etc. — through a critical lens. This capstone delves into the research question: How can critical literacy strategies be implemented in an upper elementary classroom to create a generation of more informed citizens? The final website helps to define critical literacy as well as supplies upper elementary teachers with strategies for integrating critical literacy into their classroom instruction using a collection of diverse texts. It also includes frameworks that teachers can use to explicitly teach the critical literacy strategies to their elementary students.
Project Type
Website Creation
Keywords
Literacy
Recommended Citation
Cameron, Maiah, "Creating a Generation of Critical Information Consumers: Critical Literacy Strategies in an Upper Elementary Classroom" (2023). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 953.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/953
dc_type
text
dc_publisher
DigitalCommons@Hamline
dc_format
application/pdf
dc_source
School of Education Student Capstone Projects