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It helps create connections between known information and new information.

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Read aloud

Mystery book in a bag with artifacts

personal dictionary

word wall

pair share charts

making connections from current to new knowledge

building schema

vocabulary games

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Getting to know your students, home life, culture, and interests. This will help you to know how to keep that student engaged and maybe how to assist them in their learning.

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Relating new information to what students already know helps teachers facilitate deeper understanding and enhance retention.

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helps build connections

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Building background knowledge helps students make connections. One way to do this is with the read aloud strategy which allows you the opportunity to not only build background knowledge but give the students a chance to make predictions if you do a “book in a bag” activity with different artifacts.

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Why are roots and affixes a type of academic vocabulary?

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1) What strategies do others find more effective?

2) why do you think it is important to make connections other than to build background?

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Why is there 3 different academic vocabularies?

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Enrichment strategies for advanced learners

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Our brain has fast thinking and slow thinking processes.

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it is important to use visuals and include ways for them to activate prior knowledge

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Our brains have fast and slow thinking processes

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Background knowledge can help ELs understand the content at a higher level.

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I learned more about what personal dictionaries are and how useful they are for building background.

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Our pupils grow when we see different type of extensive problems.

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I learned about multiple strategies that can help build student background knowledge.

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Using visuals can help connect prior knowledge to background knowledge. Many activities that can be used to promote this. Prior knowledge can help create concrete knowledge

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Background knowledge is a basis that all students should have and be thinking about when learning new information

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Building background and activating background are slightly different.

It is vital to make explicit connections for ELs

Entry tickets are a great way to activate prior knowledge.

Thinking about vocabulary instruction and taking time to review vocabulary is important for all students.

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Building background activate prior knowledge while developing academic vocabulary. Read aloud and word clouds are great strategies to use in the classroom.

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I have learned that building background knowledge helps student find connections to new material. 

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I have learned that building background knowledge helps student find connections to new material. 

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When speaking to EL parents it is important to take it slow, use visuals, and model activities to do together at home.