Critical Literacy Matrix

• Select 3 questions from 3 different colours from

the matrix on the following 2 slides.

• Apply those questions to a text of your choice.

This could be a text studied in class, an advert,

a music video, a tv show or film you enjoy.

• Post your findings onto your blog.

Make sure you tell your audience what text you have chosen.

• Work coming soon!

ones in red are the ones have done.

 

What is the text about? How do we know?/	Who would be most likely to read this text and why?	Why are we/you reading this text?	What does the author of this text want us to know?
What are the structures and features of this text?	What genre does this text belong to?	What do the images suggest?	What do the words suggest?
What kind of language is used in the text?	How are children, teenagers, young adults, and adults constructed in this text?	Why has the author constructed the characters this way?	In whose interest is this text?

 

Who benefits from this text?	Is the text fair?	What knowledge does the reader need to bring to this text in order to understand it?	Which positions, voices and interests are at play in this text?
How is the reader positioned in relation to the author of this text?	How does the text depict age, gender, cultural groups?	Whose views are excluded or privileged in the text?	Whose is allowed to speak? Who is quoted?
Why is the text written in the way it is?	Are there gaps and silences in the text?	Who is missing from the text?	What has been left out of the text?
What questions about itself does the text not raise?	What views of the world is the text presenting?	What kinds of social realities does the text portray?	How does the text construct a version of reality?
Who is real in the text?	How would the text be different if it were told in another time, place or culture?	What kind of person, and with what interests and values, authored the text?	What view of the world and values does the author assume the reader holds? How do we know?
What different interpretations of the text are possible?	How do contextual factors influence how the text is interpreted?	How else could the text have been written?