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**Critical Literacy Response**
Section 7.4 (Instructional Strategy 14)

Students are asked to make a personal response using a critical literary perspective. This will aid students in responding critically in class and in homework assignments in a structured way.
 * Rationale:**

1. Select a fictional or informational text students would be able to read in a critical light. We will use //Lord of the Flies// as a viable example. 2. Distribute the Critical Literacy Response reproducible and read the sections with the students providing explanation when necessary. 3. Model the thinking process you might use when you are answering the questions on the worksheet. Write your answers on the board, on a computer hooked to a projector, or under a document camera so students can follow your out-loud thought process. 4. Have students complete a Critical Literacy Response either individually or in groups. Take time in class to discuss these responses. 5. Use the Critical Literacy Response Sheet as the basis for further journal writing activities.
 * Instructions:**

Using Lord of the Flies as an example, you could could use this strategy to have students analyze why a teacher might want students to read this particular book and why is has lasted so long in the canon, what questions they still have for the author (William Golding) after reading it,what was surprising, what they could connect to, a statement that relates the book to more global issues, and a statement that represents a perspective not present in the book. Even using one of these questions at a time as an in-class pre-write or journal prompt would be useful.
 * Applications to Language Arts:**