Essay Outline

Question: Why critical literacy education provides to young people with a better understanding of the world.

Thesis: Implementing critical literacy education in classrooms could be an innovative strategy for developing the students’ critical thinking skills.  

Introduction

Hook/Topic sentence: “critical literacy provides opportunities for readers to determine their ability to discern the purpose of texts and also their ability to identify ideologies presented in these texts what can lead them to accept, reject or reconstruct the ideologies presented” (Luke, 2000).

Background information: Using critical literacy within the classrooms may allow students with the opportunity to read, evaluate, and reflect on different texts, and embark upon the creative process of actively constructing or reconstructing these texts critically.

Thesis: Critical literacy education provides many advantages to students in emphasizing reading comprehension and the ability to critique, increasing awareness of social issues, and helping them find ways to participate in society in a more active way.

Body (1)

Topic sentence: Critical literacy education empowers students to embrace their own conceptual perspectives.

Supporting sentence: When students are exposed to this knowledge construction, or reconstruction, of content they develop better critical capabilities.

Opposing opinion: Critical literacy education is limited when attempting to take social action to redress political inequities and injustices within the context of school-based literacy curricula.

Counter-argument: The findings of Morrell’s in 2004 demonstrated that critical literacy education could produce proficiency in academic and other literacies.

Body (2)

Topic sentence: Critical literacy education helps students actively avoid being misinformed or manipulated.

Supporting sentence: Critical literacy education encourages individuals to understand and question the attitudes, values, and beliefs of written texts, visual applications, and spoken words.

Opposing opinion: There might be settings where silence is encouraged and this could be a great problem.

Counter-argument: Morrell (2007) contended that engaging in critical literacy involves the consumption, production, and distribution of print and new media texts by, with, and on behalf of marginalized populations in the interests of naming, exposing, and destabilizing power relations while promoting individual freedom and expression.

Body (3)

Topic sentence: Critical literacy education helps students understand the personal and wider implications of a text.

Supporting sentence: Students can read, analyze, critique, and question the messages inherently present within any form of text.

Opposing opinion: They are more likely to encounter with sources and information that can make them doubt on if it’s true or false.

Counter-argument: However, as they have developed their critical thinking skills they will be much better equipped to face and solve the problems of the future.

Conclusion:

Critical literacy education provides a variety of advantages and benefits for young students. It not only involves learning how to think critically but it also develops in students a deeper understanding of their external worlds and what it means to be agents of change.