This week's show will be released one or two days later than usual as I am enroute to Hawaii where I will be talking about critical literacy with educators attending the International Reading Association Regional Conference. I have Liana Honda to thank for the wonderful opportunity. So in a day or two CLIP 19 which focuses on Everyday Texts and Popular Culture will be coming to you from Hawaii! Just a little about this week's show... When I use the term everyday texts I am referring to texts that are spoken or written, sung, drawn, painted and so forth… as part of everyday life. These texts can be so common that we do not carefully take notice of them. As a result we can be less aware of the kinds of messages about our world ,which they convey. Since these texts are not natural representations of the world they can be interrogated, deconstructed, and analyzed to uncover different views of the world they could represent. In doing so we are able to make visible the lifestyles and social identities that are constructed through what is presented and how it is presented creating space for the redesign of such texts. The everyday text I will focus on is the Fruity Peel-Outs box, which are candy fruit snacks for children. Sheets of sweet, sticky, pliable candy come rolled up in individual packages ready for children’s consumption. The work I will describe was done with a group of pre-school children between the ages of 3 and 5 when one of the children in the group brought a box of Fruity Peel Outs to school.