Critical Literacy Theory

Therefore, your classroom would be a place where students are free to express ideas without fear, ridicule or suppression. Critical literacy theory is also another theory that is student-centered. It encourages students to develop skills despite social class, backgrounds or race. Critical literacy originated from Paolo Freire (1985). It also encourages readers to question the information they come across rather than passively accept it. Therefore, as teachers, we need to teach students the tools to read critically and individually and question every piece of information they read. Both the Reader Response and Critical Theory recommend integrating reading and writing. It views reading and writing as meaning-making processes and explains that
These systems are used at the same time, as individuals may vary in the way they combine them. The phonological system is important for oral and written language. Children use their knowledge of the phonological system to spell unknown words, using invented spelling. It consists of a sound system of English with approximately forty-four sounds and more than five hundred ways to spell them. Some of the terms associated with the phonological system are; phoneme, grapheme, phonological awareness and phonics. The application of these are used in pronouncing words, detecting regional and other dialects and decoding words when reading. Students use inventive spelling, reading and writing alliterations and onomatopoeia, notice rhyming words and divide words into syllables. The syntactic system relates to the structural organization of English, that governs how words are combined into sentences. Some of the terms associated with the syntactic system are; syntax, morpheme, free morpheme and bound morpheme. The application of these is; adding inflectional endings to words and combining words to form compound words, by adding prefixes and suffixes to root words and using capitalization and punctuation to indicate beginnings and ends of