"Professor Daniel Willingham describes why content knowledge is essential to reading with comprehension, and why teaching reading strategies alone is not sufficient..."

This video is  referenced in an article published on The Core Knowledge Blog titled 'Meet the Children Where The Are...and Keep Them There.' This articles discusses the "three big ideas embedded within the English Language Arts standards that deserve to be at the very heart of literacy instruction in U.S. classrooms, with or with or without standards themselves." Take the time to read the article and watch the video. The article is located at:  http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/02/27/meet-the-children-where-they-are-and-keep-them-there/