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Download full textMcClain, Anita Bell – 1985
Classroom teachers might consider teaching children to become critical readers through the use of traditional literature. It is not necessarily difficult to define critical reading, but it is a difficult task to teach students when and how to read critically. The six skills most important to critical reading are that the reader should (1) read…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Fiction
