A plea for critical reading in the primary grades

Examining the Relationship between Middle School Students’ Critical Reading Skills, Science Literacy Skills and Attitudes: A Structural Equation Modeling

“…Higher reading comes true effectively when the reader can relate the known with new information in order to answer some questions (Collins, 1993). According to Criscuolo (1965), critical reading is a critical process in which higher order mental process is used for interpreting and evaluating the information read. In this process, while developing his critical reading skill, a student must compare what they read with the previous information.…”