Critical Literacy Terms Revision

A description or portrayal of people, places, objects or concepts in a particular way.

• Discourse

• Representation

• Cultural Assumptions

• Gaps

Cultural Assumptions are the notions or ideas made by readers of a text, based on particular cultural experiences.

• True

• False

A way of speaking or writing used by a particular group, related to their social position and practices.

• Talking

• Conversations

• Discourse

• Spoken Word

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Gaps = A particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

A particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned is ...

• Bias

• Negativity

• Thoughts

• Judgey

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A stereotype is a fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of ... or thing.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Foregrounded means ...

• Making something not important and drawing attention away from it.

• Making sure something has zero importance.

• When a text has four main ideas.

• Making something important and drawing the reader's attention to it.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

To treat a person, group or concept as insignificant or peripheral is to marginalise it.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Manipulation is when ...

• A text has an alternative reading challenges the dominant reading

• You make people do or think things they otherwise might not.

• You respond to a stimulus.

• there is a common and widely-accepted interpretation of a text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

The 'dominant reading' is the most ... and widely-accepted interpretations of a text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7