Critical Literacy for Young Children

This lesson was a good lesson for young students in the lower elementary grades. The lesson began by giving background information about the student teacher who conducted it and she said something that stuck with me. This lesson was about how young children can investigate to learn about history and the past. The teacher before the lesson, mentioned that young children are able to do this if teachers took that leap and I thought she made an extremely good point. Not only can middle school and high school students do this and understand what they are discovering but so can young children. I think it was important for her to mention that because teachers may feel like younger kids are not capable to understand historical topics and make connections, but from this lesson, the students were able to understand. They were also able to relate what they were finding in the non fiction books thing that related to them in their lives and also make connections that things back then were also way different. I thought the lesson was a great one to get students to make connections between the different parts of social studies. If I get put into a lower grade, I would love to try something like this in my classroom. I thought, based on the article, the investigative approach was very effective.