Emily Skinner’s text explores using popular magazines and movies as ‘mentor texts’ through which students could practice numerous skills. \u00a0Skinner explains that students can be encouraged to critically consume popular texts and to use these texts to examine various social issues and aspects of there personal lives on a deeper level. \u00a0Using popular texts not only can easily motivate normally reluctant students but can also allow students to enjoy learning something which I believe has been lost in many school systems. \u00a0The ability to instill genuine intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn and improve can be accomplished in several ways, one of these ways being through using popular texts and images in the classroom. \u00a0Basing writing exercises on popular materials encourages critical examination both of texts and of the writing and planning process in general. \u00a0Although the use of these texts in the classroom would seem to be a wholly positive experience for students, their use would definitely need to be carefully monitored in order to keep students on task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Emily Skinner’s text explores using popular magazines and movies as ‘mentor texts’ through which students could practice numerous skills. \u00a0Skinner explains that students can be encouraged to critically consume popular texts and to use these texts to examine various social … Continue reading