Teaching Content Is Teaching Reading
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2009
- Professor Daniel Willingham describes why content knowledge is essential to reading with comprehension, and why teaching reading strategies alone is not sufficient that students read with good comprehension.
Edit: March 12, 2016. About the silence at the end...there used to be music there, which I pulled from the Web, as it was Creative Commons (educational use). Then the publisher revoked the license w/o telling me and put an ad on this video. So I chucked the music.
I, too, came to this video by reading Natalie Wexler's book, "The Knowledge Gap", which also led me to the work of Robert Pondiscio and David Liben. My brain has been on fire ever since!
Who else watched this video because of Natalie Wexler's book, The Knowledge Gap?
Mark L I loaded the video as soon as I saw the reference in Wexler’s book.
Yup, I did. Even though I’d also previously got a copy of ‘Why don’t students like school’. Really good vid...
The book and the Science of Reading podcast episode on background knowledge
Reading The Knowledge Gap now which brought me to this video. 👏
Me. I just read about it on the book.
This was posted many years ago. This is as relevant as ever!
I teach (taught, now retired) orchestra. The more content I poured into my classes, the better the kids read - MUSIC! They got content in music history, in writing it, in rhythms... The more content, the better they got at everything.
I teach teachers how to teach reading across Content areas. This is one of the BEST educational videos I have ever watched. Kudos to you Mr. Willingham.
I just turned in my Master's thesis on the importance of being able to read content knowledge. My professor sent me the link for your video. Excellent! Thanks for sharing such a vital idea.
Watching this video is required by my College of Education professor at EKU. This video conveys an EXCELLENT point about the value of extensive and deep reading.
This video is awesome. I like how at first there are a bunch of really bold claims in well known quotes to get your mind thinking about the issue at hand - when you've heard about it before, who has referred to it, etc. I think it is super important to emphasize the issue of "bridging the gap" in schools and how we are doing it all wrong! Getting to tap into your students funds of knowledge is incredibly important and allows you to become a better teacher because you can provide all the supports necessary for your students to succeed. The example of the students reading and answering questions about a baseball game was a perfect example of the issues facing students today especially because so many of our students are diverse and come from all over the world! Incorporating their ideas and knowledge about the world will allow other students to learn more about different cultures. Providing that knowledge can help the future generations to not be ignorant and to embrace diversity!
This is one of the best videos I've seen discussing bridging the gap between reading and understanding. I read "Why Students Don't Like School" by Dr. Willingham, and the information displayed here is elaborated on in his book. It is definately worth the read...hopefully you can continue to bridge the gap with your learning as well!
So true! Would add: reading aloud helps students learn the voice of a text. That's one reason theatre helps reading. Also helpful, to begin to see reading as conversation across time and space, a link to other human beings we can question, converse with, argue back to. That's why reading aloud even to high schoolers is important. Until they can HEAR Shakespeare, they can't read Shakespeare. Same for Emerson, or the Declaration of Independence. Thanks for this video.
This is a fantastic video! I am a Social Studies teacher and I am often appalled at how poorly my students read, and how much the hate reading. What is even more shocking is that many seniors preparing to go to college are functionally illiterate, and have absolutely no clue that they are. I have always believed that I am a teacher of reading as much as I am a teacher of history or geography. Reading is the vehicle of learning.
Excellent work. I would not give up time on activating prior knowledge, because students do not do a good job of this on their own. Nor would I give up on ideas and details. But giving more value to increasing reading through a knowledge base is an incredibly valuable perspective that deserves more attention in schools.
really well made.. the music kept me engaged! of course, I didn't have to be persuaded about the main thesis... it seems remarkably peculiar that process is emphasized (in elementary school) over content
Very engaging video. It reminds me of how important integrated content areas and thematic units are in elementary. It also makes me curious about how background knowledge is tapped into in Two-Way Dual Language Education. Even when students have similar background knowledge on a topic, they have it in one language only at the beginning.
Thank you so much for sharing! this is my belief as well. I will share this with my staff!
I couldn't agree more! With every BIT! I hope to incorporate these ideas into my classroom
as a teacher for geography and social studies: thank you so much!
Agreed! And in early grades when students can't get much from reading themselves, there are other ways of conveying this information, of course: read-alouds, etc.
Very powerful and very appreciated!
Thanks! I'm not sure how long I spent on it, but it was a looong loooong time. . . .
Refreshing! Having taught in Oman, I know this is so, so true.
Which is why teachers need to help students develop academic persistence! I agree that we need to use informational text in the early grades as students are learning to read - it is a win, win situation. Informational text is the kind of text adults encounter most often in the "real world" and it is increasingly the kind of text students are required to deal with as they move through middle and high school.
This is an awesome video.
This is a great video! I'm a school librarian also a reading specialist -- mostly I like to develop readers. I like to encourage wide interests and building curiosity among my elementary students. This is especially important with "disadvantaged" out-of-the-mainstream students. I will save this video.
It might interest you to know that there is a current movement in developmental literacy to infuse more non-fiction in the early grades. There have been many good books published for early readers and for developing readers, too. The International Reading Association identifies books each year for children and young adults that are particularly good books to use with students. Also, NCTM, NSTA, and NCSS publish lists of books [many keyed to standards] to use with students.
I have heard this. . .I hope it gains traction. . . .read alouds are important too!
Wow - what a great way to teach this critical info to both prospective teachers and the general public! I am so impressed.
Okay now - be honest - how much time did it take to put this together?
Agreed, this seems to be a very important factor--wealthy families can provide a richer home environment. . .
Right, as the %age of material in the passage that is familiar drops, it gets harder to understand, and most people quit trying when it gets below 80% or so. I'm sure that reading strategies can push that a little lower. . .but most people don't use them in everyday contexts. . . they quit.
Very informative video.
Excellent!
E.D. Hirsch would agree. Great video. See Core Knowledge Foundation to add to your understanding of this important video.
Some very good points were made. However, I was very distracted at 7:24 by the bulletin board that had the word "marvelous" spelled wrong... ;)
what is a good reading ratio for scholars?
@dbw8m Families are "wealthy" usually because the father, and sometimes mother, are the descendants of a lineage that metaphored-up at sometime in the past, or it could be that the father was the first in his lineage to do so, and lived in a place where affluence was attainable (thus, not Nepal for the most part). Poor parents often discourage abstract thinking (metaphor) in their children out of their own vanity. I encourage children to understand the ratty game and manuever up & out of it.
Wow. The idea is so obvious that I'm ashamed I did not put it together myself.
I am curious as to why you excluded math. Teaching math is also teaching reading. Math is all about understanding concepts which involves language not just numbers.
BDelaney The Algebra Project teaches math in a social context and as a language, hence “math literacy.”
Hear! Hear!
Ok - I'll buy the importance of prior knowledge. Just one question: If you prior knowledge is essential for comprehension, how do you get any [through reading] anyway??? In order to read unfamiliar text, you must have comprehension strategies --
very nice I agree!!!
Hi Daniel
I loved the content developed in the video but I got a headache with the sound of constant drums in the music. I think it just sucks the energy out of the reader. I would highly recommend some music that would be "upbeat" but less drums-pounding on the head. Thank you so much for posting this document and the ideas developed!
+math done . Really? Could you turn the volume down - or mute?
Too funny that you said this as that was one of the highlights for me...I thought it was very well done.
@@amyo4616 That's what I did.
Amen
Awesome
Rigorous early years phonics teaching, if it were the norm, would virtually banish illiteracy. It is not and is unlikely to become the norm any time soon. Children failed by inappropriate early years teaching can still acquire good literacy skills as long as teachers refuse to be constrained on the question of HOW letter/sound correspondences are learned. Consider the views of children who learned them perceptually rather than ritually by Googling RUclips Perceptual Learning in Action.
rest in peace
same
yup
Is teaching math teaching reading? Math was not mentioned at all in the video...particularly at the end when different subjects were being used to fill in the blank, "Teaching _________ is teaching reading."
I left teaching elementary science 2 years ago because reading had become the monster that ate the curriculum. I couldn't convince teachers that engaging students through rich science activities paired with great science books (not text books) would be a far more effective instructional strategy than using leveled fiction books of dubious quality. The school I left dismantled my science lab the next year and hired more literacy coaches. Reading scores have not improved.
*sigh*
I have to watch this video for my class. It's got good material, but the music in the first half sounded like a couple was about to have a romantic moment.
I'm glad to hear the video can serve multiple functions.
From commenter to creator, I meant no offense, but do appreciate your utilitarian response there. It made me chuckle.
No offense taken! Music is pretty cheesy throughout...I used easily found copyright free bits.
idea 1 to idea 2 is like a math theorem
Does anyone think a study is needed to prove that distractions are or are not OK while learning the martial arts of Asia? The master requires total obedience to his will and total obedience to one's own will. If you pay attention to a distraction your will has come under the control of another. When you study in total concentration you are obeying the master and yourself - no others allowed. Then you must be tested and test yourself. Is this not obvious?
ON AVERAGE, kids from wealthy homes hear a more varied vocab., are talked to more, more often go to libraries, museums, are asked their views and opinions by parents more often. . .these data are from studies in which observers go into homes and just record what happens. . .
That being the case, schools can narrow the gap by providing those experiences.
This video presents compelling information, but the lack of punctuation (in a video produced by a college professor, about reading of all things) is distracting and counterproductive. One would expect someone who has read widely to instinctively put periods at the end of their sentences.
If the parent values the child's education a clean and orderly home wil be provided and quiet study time enforced. The parent will not put his/her vanities ahead of the child's educative needs. The child will also be educated as to the ways of the world - gradually of course. The poor and/or hedonistic who teach their child to resent will reap their harvest of rotten fruit, and of course blame it on others. Dominance usally comes to the calm and ascetic types - university studies are not needed.
You can't put too much water into a nuclear reactor. - A monty python sketch.
10/10
WHY is this a video? I expect a video to have live action and talking. This is an article spread on PowerPoint into a video. I wish it were just an article. OR that you had met my expectations and filmed an oral presentation. Cheers!
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Lock and Load teachers.....
While very informative, I was struck by how little diversity was reflected in the people shown in this video. In particular, most of the people shown in the video were male and most were white males.
Seriously? That's your complaint??
+Steve Kilpatrick That's an entirely fine argument. Seriously? Is that your response to a student's question? See how off-putting that is. Not nice.
+AnneMarie Donahue What's off-putting is people making an issue where there isn't one; they're *looking* for a way to be offended, which has *nothing* to do with the content of the video.
+Steve Kilpatrick yes I can see how asking an educator to consider that this planet has a diverse population of multicultures and genders would be terribly difficult. The struggle is real.
+AnneMarie Donahue #alllivesmatter. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
Annoying music geesh
Seriously???? You bring the act of killing an animal into a video that's about teaching?????? (4:50) It's unfortunate that this was the only example you could provide. You even provided background knowledge on a murderous act.
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