RED585 Week 3 - Discuss ways of building background knowledge

RED 585

Topics for Week 3

Directions: Respond to the following topics:

Lewis & Strong Ch. 4

1. Discuss ways of building background knowledge and explain why background knowledge is important.

2. What is academic vocabulary? How do you choose which words to teach? What are some effective strategies for teaching? Give an example in a content area?

3. What is the Concept of Definition strategy? How could you use it to teach vocabulary?

4. What is a semantic feature analysis? Give an example of how you could use it.

5. What are some strategies for previewing a text?

6. How could you use the K-W-L Strategy in a content area?