“When you put it that way, it sounds painfully obvious:
If a child knows a whole lot about a topic, they are more effective reading about and thinking about it than if they don’t know much about it.”
@dtwuva.bsky.social at @jhueducation.bsky.social NAEP event:
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If a child knows a whole lot about a topic, they are more effective reading about and thinking about it than if they don’t know much about it.”
@dtwuva.bsky.social at @jhueducation.bsky.social NAEP event:
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“It’s not just a knowledge-rich curriculum. It’s a knowledge-rich curriculum that is carefully sequenced.
The ideal is that when we put a text in front of a child for the child to read, they have all the background knowledge in place to read the text and…”
@dtwuva.bsky.social explains the importance of coherent learning in the curriculum, in order to support reading comprehension and enable new learning.
Core learning about the world (seasons and animal adaptations, history fundamentals, civics basics) are foundations, too… foundations for comprehension and foundations for more sophisticated learning.
One of the things I noticed as "lead teacher", observing lessons in different subjects, is that things in can often use the same skills.