It Is What You Know: Building Knowledge with myPerspectives

Background knowledge and knowledge building are the dynamic duo of comprehension. In the classroom, effective literacy instruction includes two knowledge-related moves:

• Activating background knowledge to give context to new information.
• Building knowledge to add new layers to what students already know.

When teachers do both, they help readers connect the dots, make intelligent inferences, and understand what they are reading. So, how does myPerspectives tap into prior learning and increase students' stores of knowledge? Explore to find out!