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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 4 |
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Peer reviewedHembrow, Vern – Language Arts, 1986
Describes an approach to teaching the elementary school curriculum using heuristics, which develops children's critical thinking skills. (SRT)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Heuristics, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedQueenan, Margaret – Language Arts, 1986
Provides ideas for helping students find sources and discover a topic for a research paper and discusses students' research processes, focusing on the need to allow students time to make meanings out of the facts they gather. (SRT)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Interviews
Peer reviewedShea, Patricia; Fitzgerald, Sheila – Language Arts, 1981
A kindergarten teacher recounts her experiences with a southeast Asian student as he progresses with the English language. The "beautiful book," in which the boy would illustrate words and dictate appropriate stories for the teacher to transcribe, was instrumental in the boy's language acquisition. (HTH)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, English (Second Language), Illustrations, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedSimpson, Mary K. – Language Arts, 1986
Lists and discusses nine classroom practices designed to support writing as a process. (SRT)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
