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Lenters, Kimberly – Reading Teacher, 2004
Consideration of literacy practices that ensure success for young second-language learners has become crucial for educators, given the growing linguistic diversity in an ever-increasing number of regions, the limited resources of school systems, and the swirling public debate on bilingual education. This article explores principles regarding…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Bilingualism

Kazemek, Francis E. – Reading Teacher, 1999
Discusses why elephant riddles are viable catalysts for word play and language development in the primary grades. Explores some relationships between children's thinking and elephant riddles. Offers some suggestions for incorporating them as a regular part of the classroom flow. (SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Humor, Language Acquisition, Language Arts

Kirkland, Eleanor R. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Discusses the relationship of cognitive development or thinking skills to language development and beginning reading. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition

Wanat, Stanley F. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Conceptual Schemes

Moss, 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

Smith, Charlotte T. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Inferential questions were found to elicit longer responses than factual questions, reflecting complexity and the use of higher cognitive processes. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Critical Thinking

Hart, 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

Holmes, Jack A.; Rose, Ivan M. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet

Niensted, Serena – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking

Wiseman, Donna L. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Argues that by encouraging children in their early writing efforts, adults can help them develop into confident and comfortable writers. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Early Reading, Integrated Activities

Allen, Elizabeth Godwin; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1988
Describes the "ALERT" procedure, whereby teachers may combine the language experience approach with the use of radio, television, newspaper, and magazine advertisements in a strategy that is useful for developing critical thinking skills, even in very young students. (ARH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education

Schneyer, J. Wesley – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Language Acquisition

Downing, John – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reports that readiness tests given to children in bilingual villages in Papua New Guinea showed that children learning to read in an unfamiliar language were more confused than were children who had never had literacy instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes