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Series Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Inquiries Into Critical Literacy | |
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Audit Trail as a Tool for Generating and Circulating Meaning | |
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Finding Space for Critical Literacy | |
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Negotiating Spaces and the Mandated Curriculum | |
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What Complexities Are Involved With Engaging in Critical Literacy Practice? | |
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Support Within the School Community | |
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Out-of-School Support Groups | |
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How Our Classroom Was Organized | |
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How Our School Day Was Organized | |
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Common Elements of Our School Day | |
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Class Meeting | |
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Setting a Meeting Agenda | |
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Using Two Day Plans | |
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Reflections | |
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Read-Aloud | |
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Whole Group Wrap-Up | |
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The Role of Parents | |
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Getting Started | |
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Constructing a Curricular Audit Trail | |
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Choosing Artifacts | |
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The Audit Trail Grows | |
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Creating a Rain Forest Play | |
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Raising Issues of Gender | |
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Audit Trail as a Tool for Constructing Curriculum | |
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Deciding on What Incidents to Represent on Our Audit Trail | |
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Visibly Connecting Issues on Our Audit Trail | |
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The French Cafe | |
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Setting the Scene | |
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What Is a French Cafe? | |
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Analyzing the French Cafe | |
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Learning About Powerful Forms of Language | |
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Offering Children Alternate Ways of Acting | |
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Our Friend Is a Vegetarian | |
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Setting the Scene | |
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We Have Vegetarians at Our School? | |
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Problematizing Social Text | |
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Extending Our Literacies | |
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Further Extensions of the Vegetarian Issue | |
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Reflective Summary | |
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Save the Beluga | |
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Setting the Scene | |
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Save the Beluga | |
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Baby Beluga Take Two: Our Version | |
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Grounding Our Work in Social Intent With Real World Effects | |
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Further Opportunities for Analyzing the Book | |
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Analyzing the Beluga Incident | |
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We Know How McDonald's Thinks | |
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Setting the Scene | |
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The McDonald's Happy Meal as Text | |
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We Know How McDonald's Thinks: The Discussion Continues | |
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Reflecting on How McDonald's Thinks | |
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Who Can Have Collectibles? | |
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Reflecting on the Conversation | |
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Further Analysis of the Happy Meal | |
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Reflecting on the Conversation | |
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Final Thoughts on the Happy Meal Discussions in the Classroom | |
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Social Action Outside the Classroom | |
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Designing a Toy Container | |
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A Look Back Over the Year | |
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Organizing a Junior Kindergarten Conference: A Culminating Experience for Our Negotiated Critical Literacy Curriculum | |
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Using Social Critique, Social Analysis, and Social Action to Construct Literacy | |
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Asking Questions That Matter: A Final Reflection | |
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What Next Year's Junior Kindergartens Should Know | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |