Developing Disadvantaged Children's Background Knowledge Interactively.

Maria, Katherine

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ERIC Number: EJ381884

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Publication Date: 1989

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Developing Disadvantaged Children's Background Knowledge Interactively.

Maria, Katherine

Reading Teacher, v42 n4 p296-300 Jan 1989

Discusses the importance of developing disadvantaged children's background knowledge by using prereading strategies which focus on the text's central ideas. Suggests several guidelines for choosing prereading strategies. (MM)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Schemata (Cognition)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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