How To Activate Prior Knowledge

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How to Activate Prior Knowledge Prior knowledge refers to all of the readers’ experience throughout their lives, including all of information they have learned elsewhere. This knowledge is one of the reading strategies which are very effective for being used in reading comprehension. Furthermore prior knowledge is the most important aspect of the reading experience because it will help students in understanding and remembering what have students read by activating their background knowledge. There are three steps in activating prior knowledge those are pre teaching vocabulary, providing background knowledge and creating opportunities for students to continue building background knowledge. The first step is pre teaching vocabulary in which teacher needs to introduce and review new vocabularies that relate to stories or information they are going to read. Then as they became more familiar with new vocabularies they will continue to build their vocabulary skill by making some sentences from those vocabularies. It is not their reading fluency increase but also their reading comprehension. Subsequently teacher must provide background knowledge in second step for example giving students some questions from general questions then slowly increase to the specific questions, showing some pictures about the material which students are going to read, allowing students to share about the topic. But before provide them with background knowledge teacher must measure students the level of prior knowledge about the material which is given to the students. This step is very important because students have different level of prior knowledge. Some students have a great and the others have very little. Thus teacher know how much he or she should provide background knowledge for them. The last step is creating opportunities for students to continue building background knowledge in

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