#  The Untapped Potential of Schema Awareness: Connecting and Organizing Knowledge 

 





November 12, 2024

 

 

 *Helping educators build and maintain healthy literacy ecosystems to support transfer of knowledge at scale and improve student outcomes.*

 What does science and social studies have to do with moving the needle on nationwide reading outcomes?

- Only thirty-five percent of 4th grade students were proficient readers *before* the pandemic, and this has declined.
- Research shows that high-quality science and social studies units can help build skilled readers.

 The good news is that your ELA block doesn’t have to work alone to achieve your academic goals.

 Instead, educators can steadily and systematically build connections over time to help students *transfer* explicitly taught knowledge to new, untaught topics —in the classroom and beyond.

 *‘…educators can steadily and systematically build connections over time to help students transfer explicitly taught knowledge to new, untaught topics —in the classroom and beyond.’*

 Developed out of [READS LAB](https://www.readslab.org/) at Harvard University, [Model of Reading Engagement (MORE)](https://engagewithmore.org/home) is an elementary science and social studies program that improves academic outcomes – including literacy and math.

 How does MORE do it? Schemas. What are schemas? They are knowledge frameworks that help students organize and connect information.

 *Continue reading at* [https://www.edtechdigest.com](https://www.edtechdigest.com/2024/11/12/the-untapped-potential-of-schema-awareness-connecting-and-organizing-knowledge/)



 

 

 



 

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