Teaching critical literacy skills to students with learning disabilities

Abstract

This paper discusses the rules of Discourse operating in classrooms, the effects that it has on students with learning disabilities, and the different aspects of what it means to be successful in literacy tasks in the regular classroom. The challenge of developing the critical literacy skills of students with learning disabilities is outlined and useful ideas to develop critical literacy skills such as the establishment of a risk‐faking environment for students, the appropriate selection of texts and the classroom teacher's role and useful strategies are presented.