Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools (Professional Development) 1st Edition

Marzano is a great researcher and has tons of information to share, but often overwhelms the application aspect with the data justifying the application. Building Background Knowledge is a fantastic exception. This book melds the research with the application so that when he outlines the best ways to build vocabulary and background knowledge with students, you understand why each part is important. Better, since you see the big picture of why building vocab and background knowledge is important and how kids learn, you can apply the resources and suggestions in the book to your own curriculum. This book is not an "off the shelf" guide to building background knowledge so you don't have to dump everything you've been doing, make thousands of copies of worksheets and tie yourself to a pre-set timeline or assessment packet. Instead, it explains why it's important to students to have a strong vocabulary and background knowledge in their content areas and then gives strategies for building that knowledge. Since we know that student success in school is often closely tied to their previous life experiences, using the ideas in this book could greatly level the playing field for those kids who come to school without much information about what we're expecting them to learn.

Bought this for use as a reading specialist in an elementary school. I worked with small groups of weak readers, and this book gave e lots of ideas on how to establish connections for the kids to related to when they read. Great for enhancing comprehension.

Great list to use for language therapy for SLP's in the back of the book. Also some information for therapy planning within the pages.

Read this for an online class as Adams State in Colorado. Course was easy and read was easy. Lots of good information packed into a short book. Glass I got to read this.

A must for teachers who want to understand the different mindset of student and their real world experience

This is an excellent book as are most books authored by Marzano. It helped me with my project. Buy it.

The book arrived pretty quickly and was in excellent condition. Will definitely consider ordering from this vendor in the future.

If you've been teaching for more than a year, it's unlikely that more than 10% of this book will be new or interesting to you.