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ERIC Number: EJ381884
Record Type: CIJE
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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Identifiers: Main Idea; Prereading Activities; Text Factors