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Content, Domain, and Word Knowledge: Relationship to Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Text.
Peer reviewedRupley, William H.; Willson, Victor L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1996
Examines background knowledge and strategy knowledge from a broad view to better understand how they contribute to elementary-age students' reading comprehension of both narrative and expository texts. Indicates that background knowledge specific to the content of the text being read begins to diminish in importance at about grade 4, when strategy…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Factor Analysis, Grade 4, Prior Learning
