“…Another point that needs to be made is that, if a reader learns to read the world in his or her own personal context, he or she needs to connect and use ideas and information from a variety of previous life and literacy experiences (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, ). Reading comprehension depends on the ability to relate the information that the reader gets from the text with prior knowledge (Anderson, ; Nelson, Schmid, & Enright, ; Shen, ; Taylor, Pearson, & Harris, ). In general, therefore, reading teachers should help students recall their old knowledge and should also offer the prerequisite knowledge for better reading comprehension.…”