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| Reading Teacher | 5 |
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| Burris, Nancy A. | 1 |
| Dasch, Anne | 1 |
| Hart, Leslie A. | 1 |
| Jalongo, Mary Renck | 1 |
| Lentz, Kathleen A. | 1 |
| Moss, Joy F. | 1 |
| Oden, Sherri | 1 |
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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 5 |
| Journal Articles | 5 |
| Information Analyses | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reference Materials -… | 1 |
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| Practitioners | 5 |
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Peer reviewedJalongo, Mary Renck – Reading Teacher, 1983
Argues that bibliotherapy can be used to help children develop reading comprehension skill and to use that skill to understand their own personal and social development in a better way. Provides a list of books suitable for bibliotherapy. (FL)
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Literature
Peer reviewedMoss, Joy F.; Oden, Sherri – Reading Teacher, 1983
Presents a language arts unit designed to create bridges between the real world and the story in order to help children develop both social understanding and reading comprehension skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Arts, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedDasch, Anne – Reading Teacher, 1983
Argues that Piaget's cognitive stage theory complements psycholinguistic theories of fluent reading by clarifying how readers acquire and then use prior knowledge. Suggests that, in this light, teachers may want to rearrange the order and manner in which they present units from basal readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedBurris, Nancy A.; Lentz, Kathleen A. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Establishes a developmental perspective for using caption books (picture books with short language captions closely related to simple pictures), then details how the books can be used in the classroom. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedHart, Leslie A. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Notes that brain research completed in recent years has shed light on the process of learning to read, then reviews that research and makes suggestions about what it means for instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cerebral Dominance, Child Language, Cognitive Development
