Development of Early Critical Literacy Skills in fifth-graders through the use of Interactive E-Books.

Abstract

This pedagogical proposal seeks to enhance a sensitization process intended to support fifth graders in an early development, growth, and expansion of their early critical skills in English by means of the critical literacy approach. For this purpose, interactive e-books appear to motivate learners in the improvement of both productive and receptive skills and to foster a new way to learn and practice a language. These interactive e-books are digital books designed to include active reader participation through multimodal features and a dynamic flow of information. All these characteristics will help to promote the decoding of texts, reflective processes, critical thinking, and vocabulary acquisition going beyond the traditional reading comprehension methods. Therefore, the critical literacy approach framework is taken and adapted into five sensitization phases composed of twelve lessons, to be presented along with an interactive web page in which students can find the materials and activities intended to be carried out during the complete process.