"Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey help you develop students' background knowledge in the subject-areas with effective, engaging ideas for modeling, guided practice, productive group work, and independent work. You'll learn to distinguish incidental knowledge from core background knowledge, check students' understanding prior to a unit; model how to activate prior knowledge; build up students' background knowledge through virtual fieldtrips, YouTube, guest experts, and more; provide collaborative ways for students to develop expertise, show what they know, and own learning."@en
"Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey help you develop lasting subject-area understanding with ideas for modeling, guided practice, productive group work, and independent work that effectively engage adolescents. You'll learn to: distinguish incidental knowledge from core background knowledge; check students' understanding prior to a unit with tools such as opinionnaires, interest surveys, and anticipation guides; model how to activate and apply prior knowledge so kids can wrestle with new content; build up students' background knowledge through virtual fieldtrips, YouTube, guest experts, and more; and provide collaborative ways for students to develop expertise, show what they know, and own their learning. --From publisher's description."

Background Knowledge the Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle