Why Prior Knowledge Wins the Game
Although schools have been prioritizing discrete skills in reading instruction for years, education writer Natalie Wexler says, building rich background knowledge could lead to more successful readers.
Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Are we doing elementary students a disservice by focusing on skills and strategies over background knowledge when we teach reading? Natalie Wexler shares a study that gives evidence that prior knowledge is more important than general skill in reading comprehension, and she makes the case that this is one of the roots of the achievement gap. Read more of Wexler鈥檚 ideas about how to build better readers in Andrew Boryga鈥檚 interview for 麻豆传媒入口, 鈥�Rethinking How We Teach Reading in Elementary School.鈥�
To see the baseball study referenced in the video, look up Recht and Leslie鈥檚 1988 research paper, 鈥�.鈥�