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2018
Volume 102, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Abstract

In this Research and Policy column, the authors define what it means for teachers and students to take a critical stance when reading children’s literature. They offer a framework teachers can use to enact a critical stance when reading picture books with their students and provide suggestions for how teachers might teach students about the world using children’s literature as a tool.

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