#BackgroundKnowledge

@visualnonglossary.bsky.social

3 months ago

Why Parents Aren’t Reading to Kids, and What It Means for Young Students A recent study found less than half of children are read to daily. The consequences are serious for early learners who enter school unprepared.

Nothing builds kids' #AcademicLanguage & #BackgroundKnowledge than daily reading—at school and at home. www.the74million.org/zero2eight/w...

Heinemann

@heinemannpub.bsky.social

7 months ago

What to Know about building background vocabulary, by Kelly Gallagher

When thinking about how to build our students’ vocabularies, it helps to consider the following big ideas. Read the full blog: spr.ly/63326fKgln

#CriticalThinking #CriticalReading #KellyGallagher #backgroundknowledge #vocabulary

Mme Lockhart

@mmelockhart.bsky.social

11 months ago

Loved this Learning Ally
webinar with Natalie Wexler tonight!! #BackgroundKnowledge #ReadAlouds #KnowledgeMatters @knowledgematrs.bsky.social

Pam Moran

@pammoran1.bsky.social

1 year ago

image of book Game by Walter Dean Myers

image of 4th graders reading under a table and discussing books at the table

high interest books facing forward in tubs in a school library for elementary students

Student in bean bag with a stuffed animal reading a book in school

Want to foster student talent through literacy? Much of the reading in school is “passage” reading tied to test practice. Kids need to listen to whole books, read whole books, converse abt books, read across content areas..ask and respond to peer to peer questions abt books #backgroundknowledge

Dr. Molly Ness

@mollyness.bsky.social

1 year ago

Rethinking Reading

Hot off the presses - a must read about #comprehension and #backgroundknowledge from Hugh Catts at @thefcrr.bsky.social #scienceofreading
www.aft.org/ae/winter202...