Response #8

Every field of study has its own language and vocabulary, and many terms have different meanings in different education concepts.  This reading stressed the importance of explicitly teaching these concepts to students of the field so that they can comprehend more complex ideas.  This is a form of scaffolding, a strategy where each lesson incrementally increases the students' knowledge and prepares them for a more advanced subject in the next lesson.  Background knowledge in a subject area allows readers to better understand text and allows for easier comprehension of more complex topics, and therefore the ability to understand the meaning of common sources in the subject area is critical to learning.