ERIC ED353556: Developing Critical Reading Skills through pdf

ERIC ED353556: Developing Critical Reading Skills through

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A teacher used classics of children’s literature to teach critical reading skills. Although scoring above the national average on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), the teacher’s fourth-grade gifted students exhibited problems with critical reading skills. A literature unit involving whole language strategies and using Beverly Cleary’s “The Mouse and the Motorcycle” and E. B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” was implemented. Students kept literature logs while reading and engaged in classroom discussions using questioning techniques designed to develop critical thinking skills. Vocabulary instruction focused on using context clues in the stories to determine word meaning. Students did research on spiders in cooperative learning groups, created a “fact vs. opinion” bulletin board on pigs, and used creative writing to evaluate situations and recommend solutions from a pig’s point of view. Students demonstrated higher level thinking skills and became problem solvers. Students’ scores on the ITBS increased remarkably as a class, but bilingual students’ increases were a disappointment.

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• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1992
• Year: 1992
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Gifted, Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Vocabulary Development, Whole Language Approach

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