What do the UDL Guidelnes suggest?
Guideline 3: Provide Options for Comprehension
3.1 Options that provide or activate background knowledge
Information – facts, concepts, principles, or ideas – is more accessible and open to assimilation as knowledge when it is presented in a way that primes, activates, or provides any pre-requisite knowledge. Differential barriers and inequities exist when some students lack the background knowledge that is critical to assimilating or using new information (e.g. knowing the rules that underlie math operations). Those barriers can be reduced when options are available that supply or activate relevant prior knowledge, or link to the pre-requisite information elsewhere.
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