Eco-Storytelling:
A Digital Toolbox for the English Classroom
for Building a Climate-Just Future

Critical Literacy Skills

Definition:
Critical Literacy Skills refers to the skill to “tease out various agendas, purposes, and interests represented in texts”.[1] Critical literacy skills enable interpretations of different (type of) texts through a critical lens.[2]

[1] Stevens, Lisa P. & Thomas W. Bean. (2007). Critical Literacy: Context, Research, and Practice in the K-12 Classroom. SAGE Publications, Inc.

[2] Bobkina, Jelena & Svetlana Stefanova (2016). “Literature and Critical Literacy Pedagogy in the EFL Classroom: Towards a Model of Teaching Critical Thinking Skills”. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 6(4), 677-96. https://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2016.6.4.6