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Background Knowledge, Curriculum, and Socioeconomic Status: What Do Second-Grade Readers Know about Topics in Core Reading Programs?
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Knight, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Students living in poverty continually score significantly lower than their more affluent peers on reading and writing achievement tests. One reason this literacy difference or gap may exist is a mismatch between students' background knowledge relevant to the text and the texts the students read daily in classrooms. It is well documented that…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Knowledge Level, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development