Reconsidering How Knowledge Impacts Comprehension, Grades 3-5

In this podcast, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates, the authors of Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom . This much-awaited sequel to the first Shifting the Balance book introduces six more shifts for elementary teachers. In this episode, the authors discuss the first new shift: building knowledge. They explore the role that knowledge plays in reading comprehension and why content area instruction is so important. They challenge educators to give knowledge building the instructional time it deserves as an essential component of reading comprehension. Learn more about all twelve shifts at TheSixShifts.com .

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Reconsidering How Knowledge Impacts Comprehension, Grades 3-5 is an episode from The Six Shifts by Stenhouse Publishers.

This episode is 09:29 long.

This episode was published on Aug 15, 2023.

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