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Summer '22 Rewind: Research, comprehension, and content-rich literacy instruction: Sonia Cabell

Science of Reading: The Podcast

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What's the Difference Between Background Knowledge and Knowledge Building?

i like to attribute things to particular people when, um, possible, when when relevant. So i saw susan newman talking about this, and she said something that stuck withme,. How can you activate knowledge if there isn't any knowledge to activate? And so in my work, i investigate whether actively building background knowledge alongside literacy instruction matters for children's literacy learning more than traditional approaches.

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