Critical Reading Across the Curriculum

Every educator understands the importance of teaching students how to read critically. Even the best teachers, however, find it challenging to translate their own learned critical reading practices into explicit strategies for their students. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum: Humanities, Volume 1 presents exceptional insight into what educators require to facilitate critical and creative thinking skills.

Written by scholar-educators from across the humanities, each of the thirteen essays in this volume describes strategies educators have successfully executed to develop critical reading skills in students studying the humanities. These include ways to help students:

• focus
• actively re-read and reflect, to re-think, and re-consider
• understand the close relationship between reading and writing
• become cognizant of the critical importance of context in critical reading and of making contextual connections
• learn to ask the right questions in critical reading and reasoning
• appreciate reading as dialogue, debate, and engaged conversation