PROPAGATING CRITICAL READING AND CREATIVE WRITING LITERACY USING READER’S DIGEST MAGAZINES

Reading “Further and Beyond the Text”: Student Perspectives of Critical Literacy in EFL Reading and Writing

Critical literacy is widely practiced in classrooms in many countries and across levels of education. Research that explores critical literacy in English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, however, remains scarce. The few studies that do exist focus on development of critical literacy without explicit attention to development of language skills (see, ...

Spatial Literacy: Reading (and Writing) Game Space

Conventions of Spatial Literacy Conventions in media serve as a kind of shorthand between creator and audience: In order to understand and enjoy novels, films, theaters, audiences must be able to “read” the conventions of these media. Though early filmgoers did not understand that the train coming toward them in the Lumiere Brothers’ L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1895) was merely a projecte...

Reading Fluency: Critical Issues for Struggling Readers

The creative potential of metaphorical writing in the literacy classroom

Creativity is difficult to define and a universal definition remains elusive. However, common words associated with creativity affirm that it concerns novelty and originality, hallmarks of many great and enduring texts. Students can also be encouraged to surface original ideas through constructing their own creative texts. This article outlines such a project that focuses on metaphorical writin...

Improving Adult Literacy Instruction: Developing Reading and Writing