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Curtiss, Deborah – Reading Psychology, 1988
Describes a college teaching experience in which active visual analysis (hands-on deconstruction of visual statements to their constituent elements and principles) had an unblocking effect on concomitant writing assignments. Suggests that students can improve both verbal and visual articulateness when modes of perceiving and thinking are used…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Research, Teaching Methods, Verbal Learning
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Rezabek, Landra L.; Ragan, Tillman J. – Reading Psychology, 1988
Explains how computers can offer learners powerful assistance in their acquisition of certain visual thinking skills. Describes the limitations and potential of using computers as tools for visual thinking with links to creative writing activities in a fourth-grade class. (MM)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
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Davis, Albert J.; Hathaway, Betty K. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Findings imply that while preschool children both enjoy and profit from listening to stories read to them in unelaborated fashion, they gain much more from observing and participating in the actions portrayed in the stories. (FL)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Listening Comprehension, Perceptual Motor Learning