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Peer reviewedRoss, Elinor P. – Language Arts, 1979
Suggests several activities to be used with variants of folk tales to develop an appreciation of folklore in children and sharpen their critical reading skills. (DD)
Descriptors: Books, Class Activities, Critical Reading, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedGates, Dale D. – Language Arts, 1983
Expands the usual notion of critical reading from just the judgments readers make about the text to include judgments they make about their "reading" of the text. Describes activities to develop "executive" metacomprehension skills. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Metacognition
Peer reviewedWright, Jone Perryman; Laminack, Lester – Language Arts, 1982
Describes activities involving the reading and writing of television commercials that were designed to help first-grade students become alert to the structural and linguistic techniques used in commercial advertising. (HTH)
Descriptors: Advertising, Class Activities, Critical Reading, Grade 1
Peer reviewedNewkirk, Thomas – Language Arts, 1982
Transcripts of writing conferences and of interviews with students illustrate both the changes in the way students evaluate writing and the teaching strategies that sharpen evaluative skills. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluative Thinking
