Education Week | The Role of Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: 3 Takeaways

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In an Education Week webinar, Ana Taboada Barber, professor and associate dean for research, innovation, and partnership, discussed "knowledge-building" and how schools can use this strategy to inform the way they teach early reading.

Teachers should focus on vocabulary development as well as morphology—teaching children the underlying structure of words and what root words mean. All of this literacy instruction should happen in ELA classes, but also across content area subjects like social studies and science, said Taboada Barber.

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