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December 2000

Criticalreading.com
http://www.criticalreading.com
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12, Advanced, Professional

CONTENT:
Dan Kurland, published author and teacher, put together this site to help students learn to read better by exploring the fundamentals of critical reading and effective writing.

AESTHETICS:
The site does not have a lot of pizzazz, but it is user-friendly with informative content.

ORGANIZATION:
Navigation is intuitive with the information organized into a simple table.

REVIEW:
Criticalreaing.com contains a series of articles designed to improve reading and writing skills. Sections include The Need to Improve Your Reading and Writing; Critical Reading v. Critical Thinking; Learning to Read and Write; The Spoken Word: The Base for Writing and Reading; Choices: The Ingredients of Texts; A Linguistics Approach to Reading and Writing, A Grammar for Reading and Writing, and more. Older students who wish to improve their reading and writing skills and teachers of reading will all find something of use here.

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