The Path to Comprehension: The Connection Between Vocabulary and Background Knowledge
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Background knowledge and vocabulary are essential components of good comprehension instruction. With some knowledge of a topic, students are set for comprehension success.
Join us for this applicable and instructive presentation as third-grade teacher Hannah Irion-Frake shares research-based strategies, activities, and personal experience from her own classroom to illustrate ways to include background knowledge and vocabulary in classroom instruction.
Attendees will learn:
- Research that supports the connection of vocabulary and background knowledge to comprehension
- Classroom strategies and activities to help your students build background knowledge
- Classroom routines and best practices for vocabulary instruction
Presenter
Hannah Irion-Frake is a literacy coach and interventionist and former public-school teacher with more than 16 years of teaching experience in second and third grades. She is a graduate of Bucknell University, Bloomsburg University, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell with master’s degrees in both reading and curriculum and instruction. She is a Local LETRS Facilitator and committed to spreading awareness about the science of reading. She shares actively about how she brought Structured Literacy practices into her own third grade classroom and with her individual students as an interventionist on her Instagram account @readingwithmrsif and on Twitter @readingwithmsif.
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