Building Independence: Growing critical thinkers and readers in the literacy classroom

In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about promoting self leadership through growing critical thinkers and readers in the literacy classroom.

We talk about:

The what, the why and the how of building independence by promoting self leadership through growing critical thinkers and readers in your upper elementary literacy classroom.

Quotables: 

-Growing critical thinkers and readers means that we create an environment where upper elementary students read a text, think about the text and respond to the text in a way that clarifies their thinking. 

-  We need to help our students become critical thinkers and readers because it’s in the reading, thinking and writing about what they have read that students begin to formulate their thinking. 

-Take time to remind students of what it means to be a critical thinker. Students are not going to remember how to apply critical thinking skills on their own.

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