Critical Literacy: Importance and Strategies

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Critical literacy is the approach to the learning that initiates encouragement of the
students for engagement and interrogation of a wide variety of texts for a better understanding of
the language of the structures and the power that constructs their lives. In short critical learning
can be defined as the ability for actively reading the texts in the manner that promotes a deep
understanding of the socially constructed concepts like the inequality, the power and the injustice
among the relationships of humans (Alvermann et al., 2018). In the current world, the
significance of the use of the critical literacy to the adolescents are manifold. The adolescents
need to be able to use the critical literacy is such a way that allow them towards look at the
digital media via an analytical lens. The critical literacy furthermore helps the adolescents to be
able to decide regarding if they want to accept that data in a fictional or factual basis. The critical
literacy can be very useful since the usage of these helps teds to be beneficial to the adolescents
for drawing attention to the aspect of a text and of a digital media which are some of the
essential ingredient of the current era.
Critical literacy is the perspective and the way of thinking regarding the literacies, the
curriculum and the lived experiences of the students. It is the ability towards understanding and
reading the texts in an reflective and active manner viewing the reader as the active participants
throughout the process of reading (Comber, 2015). The critical literacy is important since it helps
in the establishment of the equal status in the reader author relationship and to become an active
user of the information for the development of independent perspectives. The importance of
critical literacy lies in the fact that it enables the students to look at the world via the critical
lenses and challenge the power relations among the message that is being communicated.
I often tend to use critical literacy strategies within the classroom. This is because this
will help and push the students to raise questions of the issues of power in the target of becoming