Topic: Improving Comprehension

10-second review: How help students improve comprehension? “Background knowledge is an important factor for creating meaning, and teachers should help students activate prior knowledge before reading so that information connected with concepts or topics in the text is more easily accessible during reading.”

Source: LS Pardo. Reading Teacher (November 2004), 274. A publication of the International Reading Association (IRA).

Comment: The more you know about a topic, the more you will comprehend what you read about it. RayS.