In the article "Democracy's young heroes: An instructional model of critical literacy practices" by A. Vincent Ciardiello, Ciardiello talks about the importance of students learning about different situations from multiple points of view. The author gives five literacy practices that he suggests all readers need to use when they are reading. These five practices are: examining multiple perspectives, finding one's authentic voice, recognizing social barriers and crossing borders of separation, regaining one's identity, and listening and responding to "the call of service". Through these five perspectives, a reader comes to understand the text they are reading in more effective ways. They understand that the text needs to be comprehended in multiple ways to get the full meaning from it.
An example from the article, is a classroom talking about desegregation of schools in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. The main person being taught about is Ruby Bridges. By implementing the five practices of literacy the author describes, the students are able to comprehend what others in that time would have thought about desegregation. The students are able to think about how they would have felt at the time and what they would have done in this situation.
I personally think that having students learn to understand text in multiple ways helps increase their understanding of the text later on. They are able then to remember the information from that text more fluently and comprehensively. It also provides them with background knowledge for later text of the same concept.
I agree with your article, I believe that if the students look at a reading in different perspectives the student will understand and comprehend the text better. They will understand the text in multiple ways and can use that information as background knowledge later on. I also think that it will help students in life as well to maybe see the other side of situations or conflicts, to view it in another perspective. It can be related easily to life situations.
I believe that teaching students to read text and to view the text through numerous lenses or multiple perspectives teaches the students that there is always more information to take from a text. Many time students can read the text from another perspective and discover something new from the text that they had not previously explored. I feel that teaching these strategies will immensely help students increase their comprehension of the text through analyzing the text for bias or other perspectives. I agree that it also increasing fluency through repeated readings.