This article focuses on developing thinking skills in reading. The author's explore the use children's literature as the tool for teaching thinking skills. It supports using the reading classroom as the logical place to start instruction with higher level cognitive skills. Children's Literature has the potential for engaging the student in active reasoning activities leading to the development of critical reading skills. The article discussed the advantages of approaching literature from a problem solving perspective.
Critical reading involves teaching students to think while reading.
This is another interesting article for an education major. It first goes into a lengthy explanatin of what cooperative problem solving is. According to this article research had demonstrated the potential of cooperative problem solving for enhancing children's cognitive development and learning. The idea here is that children must be taught to share differing points of view in attempting to achieve a goal. This skill is seems to be essential in resolving conflicts in opinion in later years.