Focus on Critical Literacy:
Recommended Reading Archives

Books

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No Deposit, No Return, by Jennifer Aaron et al.

Reading, Writing, Thinking: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Reading, edited by Meeli Pandis, Angela Ward, and Samuel R. Mathews

Articles

Following are selections from recent issues of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy:

“Balancing linguistic and social needs: Evaluating texts using a critical language awareness approach,” by Rod E. Case, Elavie Ndura, and Marielena Righettini (Feb. 2005; vol. 48, no. 5; )

“A place for critical literacy,” by Ann S. Beck (Feb. 2005; vol. 48, no. 5)

“Looking for critical literacy with postbaccalaureate content area literacy students,” by Mellinee Lesley (Dec. 2005/Jan. 2005; vol. 48, no. 4)

Available from Reading Online, IRA’s freely available e-journal:

“Crossing the information highway: The web of meanings and bias in global media,” by Ladislaus Semali (Dec. 2002)

“Culturally responsive instruction as a dimension of new literacies,” by Kathryn H. Au (July 2001)

“From a semiotic perspective: Inference formation and the critical comprehension of television advertising,” by Don Langrehr (May 2003)

“Further notes on the four resources model,” by Peter Freebody and Allan Luke (August 1999)

“Informing our practice: Modernist, transactional, and critical perspectives on children’s literature and reading instruction,” by Frank Serafini (Feb. 2003)

“Learning to read the world: Who—and what—is missing?” by Patricia H. Hinchey (May 2001)

“Reaching across cultures: Learning about ourselves and learning about literacy,” by Sara Ann Beach, Angela Ward, and Sapargul Mirseitova (Dec. 2001)

“Song lyrics as texts to develop critical literacy,” by Carol V. Lloyd (June 2003)

“A tale of differences: Comparing the traditions, perspectives, and educational goals of critical reading and critical literacy,” by Gina Cervetti, Michael J. Pardales, and James S. Damico (April 2001)

From Reading Research Quarterly:

“New literacies and the institution of old learning,” by David G. O’Brien and Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer (Jan./Feb./March 2005; vol. 40, no. 1)

“Measuring the acquisition of media-literacy skills,” by Renee Hobbs and Richard Frost (July/Aug./Sept. 2003; vol. 38, no. 3)

“Between contexts: A critical discourse analysis of family literacy, discursive practices, and literate subjectivities,” by Rebecca Rogers (July/Aug./Sept. 2002; vol. 37, no. 3)

“Illuminating constructivism: Structure, discourse, and subjectivity in a middle school classroom,” by Margaret Sheehy (July/Aug./Sept. 2002; vol. 37, no. 3)

“Identity matters,” by Sarah J. McCarthey and Elizabeth Birr Moje (April/May/June 2002; vol. 37, no. 2)

“Boy talk: Critical literacy and masculinities,” by Josephine Peyton Young (July/Aug./Sept. 2000; vol. 35, no. 3)

Selections from The Reading Teacher, IRA’s journal for those working with children from preschool to age 12:

“Personal response and social responsibility: Responses of middle school students to multicultural literature,” by Janice Hartwich Dressel (May 2005; vol. 58, no. 8)

“Multiple dimensions of literacy and conceptions of readers: Toward a more expansive view of accountability,” by James S. Damico (April 2005; vol. 58, no. 7)

“Democracy’s young heroes: An instructional model of critical literacy practices,” by A. Vincent Ciardiello (Oct. 2004; vol. 58, no. 2)