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Moffett, James – Language Arts, 1979
To benefit rather than suffer from language, we must keep it in its place, in balance with other functions of the organism. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language, Language Arts

Fernie, David E. – Language Arts, 1992
Profiles and interviews Howard Gardner, a cognitive psychologist, researcher, and educator, who addresses the cognitive processes and development of children and education in his writings. Discusses different kinds of intelligences and how to promote them in children. (PRA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence, Interviews

Froese, Victor – Language Arts, 1978
The four stages of writing development in the elementary grades are writing readiness, dictation, independent writing, and language experimentation. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Handwriting Readiness, Writing (Composition)

Hong, Laraine K. N. – Language Arts, 1978
A review of research reveals that explicit knowledge of language is not always desirable; instead, children should be exposed to language and have experiences which provoke language use. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts

Lutz, Elaine – Language Arts, 1986
Presents research showing that spelling is a complex developmental process and that once the stages of development are identified, teachers can help students to develop strategies for learning standard English spelling, and they can assess students' progress more accurately. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods

Romero, Carol – Language Arts, 1976
Literature about death can help children to understand and accept death; bibliographies are included for primary reading, intermediate reading, and adult to child reading. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Children, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development

Dressel, Janice Hartwick – Language Arts, 1988
Maintains that our understanding of learning cannot be complete until we recognize the symbiotic relationship between cognitive and affective means of knowing. Asserts that in the development of critical thinking, aesthetic forms, perceived intuitively, become the criteria against which the child intellectually measures the "fit" of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Intuition

Graves, Donald H. – Language Arts, 1982
Examines how children develop as writers and presents new ways of looking at children's problem solving in what they do and say during the writing process. Presents an outline of the general orders of child focus in the writing process. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Problem Solving

Rupley, William H.; Russell, Mary T. – Language Arts, 1979
Reviews research studies, available through the ERIC system, on the interaction of cognitive, social, and language development, drawing implications for language arts instruction. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts

Smith, Frank – Language Arts, 1979
Suggests ways that speaking and listening, reading and writing can be brought together in the learner's mind. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Integrated Curriculum

Bingham, Alma; Dusenbery, Bea – Language Arts, 1979
Describes how a purposeful, creative use of show and tell can help develop students' speaking, listening, and thinking skills. (DD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Arts

Saltz, Rosalyn – Language Arts, 1979
A review of research and theory demonstrates that teachers can learn much about students' cognitive and linguistic skills by exploring their understanding of proverbs. (DD)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Elementary Education

Schwartz, Judy I. – Language Arts, 1979
Uses several anecdotal accounts to illustrate principles of linguistic and cognitive development, and then applies these principles to classroom strategies for teaching reading. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition

Mikkelsen, Nina – Language Arts, 1985
Explores a preschooler's repeated attraction to two books, and what it means in terms of the child's literacy before she learns to read. Describes the child's advancing critical skills. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Literary Criticism, Literature

Beers, James Wheelock; Beers, Carol Strickland – Language Arts, 1980
Tells how children's spelling strategies offer a glimpse of their knowledge about words; describes a study indicating that children's knowledge about words develops sequentially and systematically over an extended period of time. Discusses implications of the study for spelling instruction. (GT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition
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