Building Content Knowledge to Boost Comprehension in the Primary Grades
This review examined research trials in K-2 settings, as well as a preliminary study testing a content-centered ELA curriculum, to understand the impacts of building content knowledge in ELA instruction on reading & linguistic comprehension. Early studies suggest building content knowledge has positive effects on language comprehension, but additional research is needed to further substaintiate this approach to build reading comprehenshion explicity through knowledge building. Access the research here.
