Critical Literacy: Using Picture Books to Read The World

Alexis Birner (M.Ed) and Lindsay Bromley (M.Ed) present their Masters of Education graduate paper, about Critical Literacy: Using Picture Books to Read The World, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Birner and Bromley (both Vancouver elementary school teachers) discuss the nature of true picture books (or 'picturebooks'), and how these books can be used for critical literacy practice in elementary school classrooms to develop critical thinking skills among young children. Among the books discussed, Birner and Bromley talk about 'The Rabbits' and '10,000 Dresses', and how they have each used these books to address specific needs among their students. Alexis Birner is both an elementary school teacher for a private girls school, and co-owner of Pear Tree Education - a 21st century learning centre in Vancouver, B.C. Lindsay Bromley is an elementary school teacher at a public school in Vancouver. Birner and Bromley will be presenting at the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable on 19th October 2012, along with famous Canadian writer, Kenneth Oppel. Here's a link to the event: http://vclr.ca/events-2012-13/kenneth... Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.