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For Stronger Readers in Third Grade, Start Building Knowledge in Preschool
Beyond the Word Wall: Building Knowledge Transfer Over Time to Accelerate Student Learning
Knowledge-Rich Curricula Advance in a Remarkable Adoption Season
A Tipping Point for Knowledge
Education Week: New Tool to Evaluate Reading Programs for ‘Knowledge-Building’
The 74: Championing High-Quality Literacy Instruction: Inside Knowledge Matters’ New Curriculum Review Tool
The Baltimore Banner: Commentary: Interim superintendent brings opportunity to raise student performance
Scaling the “Dinosaur Effect”: Topic vs. Theme in Elementary Classrooms
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Most primary teachers and parents of early-grade children will recognize what we’ve dubbed the “dinosaur effect,” marveling at the capacity of young children to capitalize on their passionate interests in, say, dinosaurs—to learn and retain astounding stores of knowledge about everything dinosaurs. How does this happen? It turns out research has an answer.
School-Wide Efforts to Build Knowledge Over Time Matter for Later Reading Achievement
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