Abstract
Background Knowledge is a hot topic, though not new to our understanding of reading and comprehension. Background knowledge is more than just knowing facts and a scaffold to comprehension. What kinds of background knowledge students posses has a significant impact on their ability to interact with text cognitively and viscerally. What happens when they don't have the necessary background knowledge? Students must learn to clarify to acquire new knowledge that becomes the background knowledge for future literacy endeavors.
Recommended Citation
Stygles, J. M. (2025). Clarifying Background Knowledge - Understandings and Practices that Scaffold Comprehension. Wellspring: A Practitioner-Oriented Journal of Literacy and Language Education, 3(1). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wellspringlled/vol3/iss1/3
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