Content-Area Literacy
Starting Small: Growing Literacy-Based Climate Pedagogy by Enhancing Existing Curricula
A Chapter from Teaching Climate Change to Children: Literacy Pedagogy That Cultivates Sustainable Futures
Summary:
This chapter supports elementary teachers who want to develop literacy-based climate pedagogy by enhancing existing curriculum—for example, by adding interactive read-alouds of literature or multimodal texts, topical word work, or mentor texts for writing.
“Stories are an important part of climate change work. They can persuade others by helping make the impact of climate change more real; they can also make inaccessible information more relatable; and they are essential to building inclusive and effective movements.”
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