Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension PuzzleWhy background knowledge?
Because content-area comprehension depends on it, you and your students need Background Knowledge. Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey help you develop lasting subject-area understanding with ideas for modeling, guided practice, productive group work, and independent work that effectively engage adolescents. You'll learn to:
Doug and Nancy also build your background knowledge with multimedia book-study resources at www.heinemann.com/backgroundknowledge. "As teachersour job is not to simply fill students' heads with facts," write Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey. "We need to have students manipulate and apply information so that it becomes a permanent understanding." That's why the time is now for Background Knowledge. |
Contents
Contents Foreword by Donald J Leu | 1 |
Placing Background Knowledge in Daily Teaching | 21 |
Teacher as Archaeologist Assessing Background Knowledge | 33 |
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