Killer Mike has shared a simple question that stayed with him from childhood: "What are they learnin' you in school, boy?"
It is more than a question about school. It is a lesson about how we learn.
"What are they learnin' you in school, boy?"
— Killer Mike — on the question his grandfather always asked him
Strong readers learn to ask:
- Who wrote this?
- What is the author trying to tell me?
- What evidence supports this idea?
- What is missing?
- Do I agree? Why?
- What questions does this text make me ask?
Reading and Critical Thinking
That is the connection between reading and critical thinking.
At The LaVoulle Group, we believe students should experience reading as an opportunity to investigate, question, connect, and create. A rigorous literacy classroom does not simply ask students to find the "right answer." It teaches them how to build an answer from evidence.
This matters beyond the classroom.
Students are constantly surrounded by information, opinions, advertisements, social media, videos, and competing narratives. They need the ability to read closely, recognize what is being communicated, question what they encounter, and make informed decisions.
Read to know.
Read to understand.
Read to question.
Read to think.
Because the goal of literacy is not simply to produce students who can read the page. It is to develop people who can read the world.
Read. Question. Think. Create.
That is literacy with purpose.
Creative educational programming for the way learners think, read, and engage with the world.
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