Use of texts as a means of providing grammatical, lexical and content knowledge. Generalization, evaluation and interpretation of the content in writing. Use newspaper articles to develop critical thinking. Method of group activities in the classroom.
Municipal autonomous general educational institution Lyceum №37 Developing Critical Reading in Early Learning Centre Batushanskaya O.M Saratov Texts are usually treated with reverence in the classroom. The student’s attitude to texts is that the ‘text knows best’, students tend to ‘’passively accept what is found in reading texts simply because it is so often presented as obvious’’ [Wallace 1990]. Secondly, teachers generally use texts as a means to inhanse grammatical, vocabulary and content knowledge. However, it is important to be able to view and question texts critically. This implies taking assertive positions against a text’s ‘’obvious’’ and ‘’taken for granted’’ stance [Wallace 1990] so the term “critical” here means that students do not blindly accept the ‘’obvious’’ statements in a text. Teachers need to guide students to question the information content and the ideological assumptions that the writer puts forth. Harris and Hodges [Harris, T.L., and R.E. Hodges 1981] define critical reading as the p
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