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Funds of Knowledge are the skills and knowledge gained by daily routines and practices, as well as cultural and historical interactions. It’s the social and cultural “stuff” that students know through personal experiences.
Background knowledge is the amount of information or knowledge someone has on a topic. Both funds of knowledge and background knowledge give us connection points for learning, and they’re both considered types of prior knowledge.
So what does this mean for instruction?
We should leverage our students' - and families’ - funds of knowledge when possible. We can use students' funds of knowledge and continue to build background knowledge on topics of study.
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Ep. 194: Exploring Models for Teaching English Learners
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Ep. 193: Systems to Get Better Reading Results with Stephanie Stollar
Ep. 192: Top Tips for Teaching Spelling with Savannah Campbell (Quick Tips from Our Teacher Friends)
Ep. 191: Teaching Spelling is Teaching Reading with Pam Kastner
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Ep. 190: How to Teach Heart Words with Jessica Farmer (Quick Tips from our Teacher Friends)
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BONUS: Happy Schwa Day! with Yvette Manns
Ep. 188: How to Teach Students to Read Irregular Words with Danielle Colenbrander & Katie Pace Miles
Ep. 187: Understanding the Logic of English with Denise Eide
Ep. 186: Top Tips for Using Sound Walls (Quick Tips from Our Teacher Friends)
Ep. 185: Understanding the How and Why of Sound Walls with Mary Dahlgren
Ep. 184: First Steps for Reading with Spencer Russell (Quick Tips from Our Teacher Friends)
Ep. 183: Aligning Phonemic Awareness Instruction to Research
Ep. 182: Plain Talk Conference Recap
Ep. 181: What Research Says About Phonemic Awareness with Matt Burns
Ep. 180: Teaching the Alphabet with Shayne Piasta
Ep. 179: The RAND Reading Model with Hugh Catts
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