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.

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“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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