ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on teaching strategies that support students in interrogating multiple perspectives and developing three critical reading practices: generating alternate perspectives on texts, examining competing narratives, and changing one’s perspectives. Teaching examples are provided with text sets of multiview social issues picture books, chapter books, and adolescent novels. This chapter also features a text set on consumerism and a text set on climate change. A climate conference activity used with third graders demonstrates how to make the concept of climate change accessible to children. Separate sections focus on examining multiple perspectives through the arts (especially the role of music in content study), through technology (using podcasts to share student work), and in supporting parents in helping their children value the perspectives of others. The chapter ends with an essay on what comprehension means in the context of critical literacy. Children’s literature featured in this chapter includes Seedfolks and Save Me a Seat.
