STWEL: Integrate w Prior Knowledge

About the Strategy

Strategy to Integrate with Prior Knowledge

"The argument is that readers who establish more connections between a text and their prior knowledge produce stronger situation models, or cognitive maps of a given state of affairs. This situation model, in turn, is aimed to improve comprehension and recall."

Gain these benefits when encouraging students to

  1. Acquire, record, organize, synthesize, remember information;

  2. Skim, identify relevant information, take notes;

  3. Study materials for a test

Matching Digital Tools to Strategy

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Reflection

Have you used this strategy or a digital tool? How might you use it differently in the future?