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S1-02. Background knowledge and education reform: Robert Pondiscio

Science of Reading: The Podcast

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The Relationship Between Background Knowledge and Reading Comprehension

We assume we send our kids to school to learn things and things aren't being taught. Don Hirsch is well into his 90s now, still vital, still writing about this. The best 10 minutes that you can spend to get an introduction to how this works at the kind of level of language go on YouTube and Google,. teaching content is teaching reading by Dan Willingham from University of Virginia.

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