General Chemistry
See Reading Apprenticeship in action! Watch this classroom video to observe a college instructor as she guides her students through questioning and collaborative sense-making of a science text.
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Disciplinary Literacies and Learning to Read for Understanding: A Conceptual Framework for Disciplinary Literacy
This article, which includes co-authors and Reading Apprenticeship leaders Will Brown, Gayle Cribb, and Cynthia Greenleaf, discusses how to design goals for what students need to know – and be able to do – in three disciplinary areas — ...
Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms, 3rd Edition
Thoroughly updated, this third edition of Reading for Understanding offers teachers evidence-based strategies to help students gain the reading independence they need to master subject area texts through Reading Apprenticeship.
Reading Matters in Secondary Grades and Every Subject Area
Watch and listen as a current superintendent, teacher, and principal explain why reading matters at the district, school and classroom levels.
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Adult Basic Skills
Wondering what Reading Apprenticeship looks like in the classroom? View this video and observe a community college class participate in a close reading of a text together.
Life Science, Grade 7
See Reading Apprenticeship in action! Watch this video of a 7th grade Life Science classroom as they read texts for science inquiry, with a spotlight on questioning.
Biotechnology, Grade 12
See Reading Apprenticeship in action! Watch as a classroom of high school seniors work in pairs, confidently practicing Reading Apprenticeship techniques they have learned.
Academic Literacy, Grade 9
Wondering what Reading Apprenticeship looks like in action? Watch as a 9th grade classroom practices Thinking Aloud in a whole class metacognitive conversation around a text.
First Year Seminar
See Reading Apprenticeship in action! Watch as a classroom of college freshmen engage in a Think Aloud, learning to actively problem solve with academic texts.
General Physics
See Reading Apprenticeship in action! In this video, college students practice being comfortable surfacing confusion and using each other as resources.
Honors US History, Grade 11
Wondering what Reading Apprenticeship looks like in action? Watch a high school honors class grapple with primary sources, make text-based arguments, and help each other think through reading challenges.
Precalculus
See Reading Apprenticeship in action! Watch as a college precalculus class collaborates to understand complex problems, guided by their Reading Apprenticeship-trained instructor.
Literature, Grade 9
What does Reading Apprenticeship look like in the classroom? See a high school ELA teacher work with a class of freshmen to develop the notion that they all have schema to help them solve reading problems.
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“My students are feeling successful, and because they feel successful, they are more engaged. And because they are more engaged, guess what—they are so much more fun to teach.”
— High School AP biology and honors physiology teacher & dept chair
