Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools

In Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement, Robert J. Marzano shows how a carefully structured combination of two approaches—sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary terms—can help overcome the deficiencies in background knowledge that hamper the achievement of many children.

Readers will learn

* The principles that underlie an effective sustained silent reading program
* A five-step process for using sustained silent reading to enhance background ...