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Download full textCollins, Norma Decker – 1993
Noting that it is only within the last decade that schools have begun to identify ways to optimize language use to promote higher level thinking, this ERIC Digest focuses on developing thinking skills in reading. The digest discusses the impetus for critical reading, the use of children's literature as a tool for teaching thinking skills, a…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
