The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging topic-focused wide reading.

Concepts

inferences

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Additional Tags

comprehension, activating prior knowledge

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.1.8 SL.2.1.c RI.5.7 SL.3.2 L.3.6 RI.K.10 RL.K.10 W.K.8 W.1.8 L.5.6 SL.3.1.d