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The strong effect that background knowledge has on reading comprehension is one of the most stable findings in all of cognitive psychology (Paris & Stahl, 2005). Even early reading researchers from Gates (1931), Huey (1908), and Gray (1939) noted the relationship between background knowledge and reading.

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