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[Listen Again] Episode 10: Noticing The #KnowledgeGap with Natalie Wexler

Melissa & Lori Love Literacy ™

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What's More Important Than General Reading Comprehension Skills?

In the late 80s, a couple of young researchers came up with this really ingenious experiment. They wanted to tease out what's more important background knowledge of a topic or sort of general reading comprehension ability. And they found that kids who were supposedly poor readers, but knew a lot about baseball did a lot better than those who didn't know much about baseball.

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