Kindergarten+classroom

Vasquez's investigation of critical literacy was focused in early childhood classrooms. This semester I have been working one-on-one with a kindergarten student in a "pull-out" setting. In addition to working with this student on the skills she needed extra reinforcement with, I also set aside a portion of our time together to focus on critical literacy. I originally set out to "reconstruct" Vasquez's audit trail. After ordering the same books Vasquez featured in her book and reading the first title with my student, I quickly realized that "recreating" someone else's audit trail was not possible. Critical literacy requires a teacher to be responsive to his or her students.So...just as critical literacy requires an educator to be adaptive, my "original plan" to recreate Vasquez's audit trail quickly evolved into something quite different. The following is the documentation of my journey with a kindergarten student as she was exposed to critical literacy for the first time. media type="custom" key="9032222" width="152" height="152" align="left"
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media type="custom" key="9036878" How do you think this book lends itself to be examined critically? Do you agree with the "issues" we came up with or can you think of others issues that may have been better suited for this text. media type="custom" key="9036906" How do you think this book lends itself to be examined critically? Do you agree with the "issues" we came up with or can you think of others issues that may have been better suited for this text. media type="custom" key="9036898" How do you think this book lends itself to be examined critically? Do you agree with the "issues" we came up with or can you think of others issues that may have been better suited for this text. =Work Sample:=
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1. What do you think worked well or didn't work well during this inquiry? 2. How could the work sample be examined further to help the student get a better understanding of power, race, sex? 3. What would your next steps be after conducting this inquiry?