I taught American History to 8th graders for many happy years. But my “a-ha” curriculum moment, the experience that revealed the potential for engaging, knowledge-rich history content to excite students and accelerate literacy, happened in a 2nd-grade reading class.| Knowledge Matters Campaign
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“The book is in a death struggle with electronic and social media. And right now, it’s losing.”| Knowledge Matters Campaign
Knowledge about the world fuels a child’s reading comprehension and critical thinking.| Knowledge Matters Campaign
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Our memories grow stronger when we work to retrieve them. That’s why flash cards and pop quizzes are effective: they prompt students to recall and access information from their memory bank. What other instructional tools and techniques help students remember what they’ve learned, and how can teachers put these to use?| Knowledge Matters Campaign
How can schools and teachers maximize student learning? To answer this question, we need to understand how the human mind works. What needs to be explicitly taught, how many new things can we remember at a time, and what is the role of background knowledge in easing students’ cognitive loads?| Knowledge Matters Campaign
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Season 2: Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension| Knowledge Matters Campaign
