Harvard Educational Review: Apprenticing Adolescent Readers to Academic Literacy
Author: Cynthia Greenleaf, Ruth Schoenbach, Christine Cziko and Faye L. Mueller
Date: Spring 2001
Journal: Harvard Educational Review
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The authors describe the Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework that is based on a socially and cognitively complex conception of literacy, and examine an Academic Literacy course based on this framework. Through case studies of student reading and analyses of student survey and test score data, they demonstrate that academically underperforming students became more strategic, confident, and knowledgeable readers in the Academic Literacy course.
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Phi Delta Kappan: Apprenticing Adolescents to Reading in Subject-Area Classrooms
Author: Ruth Schoenbach, Jane Braunger, Cynthia Greenleaf, and Cindy Litman
Date: October 2003
Journal: Phi Delta Kappan
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DESPITE THE increasing pressures for content coverage in the current high-stakes testing environment, a small but growing number of middle and high school teachers across the country are taking the time to teach about reading in their disciplines. They are learning to recognize their own complex discipline-specific reading processes and are helping their students do the same, implementing an approach we call Reading Apprenticeship.® These teachers' efforts have made a significant difference in attitudes and outcomes for many of their students, particularly for those who are reading well below grade level and who have "given up on reading."1
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Traveling Together over Difficult Ground: Negotiating Success with a Profoundly Inexperienced Reader in an Introduction to Chemistry Class
Author: Cindy Litman and Cynthia Greeneleaf
Date: 2008
Publisher: Guilford Press
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Without classroom interactions that emphasize student capabilities and reward effort toward learning, students may make little progress over the difficult terrain of high academic challenge. In order to benefit from high-quality curriculum and instruction, students must avail themselves of these learning opportunities. This chapter describes how a chemistry teacher not only provided rich literacy and science learning opportunities, but supported his students to invest themselves in learning through a process of "negotiating success."
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Professional Development for Literacy: Building a Community of Readers
Author: Jane Braunger
Date: June 2003
Journal: Middle Matters Online
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"It is important for principals and teachers to reflect on and discuss their own beliefs about literacy and learning as they plan for professional development..." In this article, Jane Braunger compares different models of professional development for middle school literacy improvement and the key elements that are essential for the success of such a program.
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Amidst Familial Gatherings: Reading Apprenticeship in a Middle School Classroom
Author: Marean Jordan, Rita Jensen and Cynthia Greenleaf
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This article describes Reading Apprenticeship, an approach to adolescent reading improvement in which teachers apprentice students into the strategies skilled readers use. It demonstrates the program at work in one seventh and eighth grade classroom and discusses four key dimensions of classroom life: social (building community); personal(connecting to reading); cognitive (developing a tool kit); and knowledge-building (tapping resources).
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Breaking Through the Literacy Ceiling
Author: Marean Jordan and Ruth Schoenbach
Date: November/December 20
Publisher: ACSA
Journal: Leadership Magazine
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"Reading is demystified for secondary students in Reading Apprenticeship classrooms, where students can 'read to learn' in all their subject area courses."
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Reading Happens in Your Mind, Not in Your Mouth: Teaching & Learning Academic Literacy in an Urban High School
Author: Christine Cziko
Date: Summer (1998)
Journal: California English
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"I am surprised because my whole attitude toward reading has changed since I was in this class and that is the
honest to god truth."
--Ninth grade "Academic Literacy" student
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Tapping Teachers’ Reading Expertise: Generative Professional Development with Middle and High School Content-Area Teachers
Author: Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf
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Paper presented at the National Center on Education and the Economy Secondary Reading Symposium March 2-5, 2000.
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Literacy Learning Cases as Catalyst for Secondary Content Teachers' Professional Development
Author: Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf
Date: April 17, 1998
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The center of professional development for the Strategic Literacy Network is a guided and carefully structured inquiry process, or "cycle of inquiry," built around what we call "literacy learning cases." These literacy learning cases--video and text-based "close-ups" of one or two ninth grade students struggling with and making sense of various texts--give teachers a chance to hear students talking about their reading histories and habits, and to see students reading and responding to an interviewer's questions about their reading.
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What Works in the High School: Results Based Staff Development
Author: Joellen Killion
Publisher: National Staff Development Council
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This third entry in NSDC's What Works series presents the results of a national review of content area staff development programs associated with increased student achievement at the high school level.
The Strategic Literacy Initiative is highlighted on pages 130-133 and in the "Achieving Results" section on pages 136, 138, 140, 142, 144.
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Carnegie Challenge Paper: The Urban High School's Challenge Ensuring Literacy for Every Child
Author: Anne Grosso de Leon
Date: 2002
Publisher: Carnegie Corporation
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See pages 9-11: "The WestEd Reading Apprenticeship Program."
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Reading across the great divide: English and math teachers apprentice one another as readers and disciplinary insiders.
Author: David Donahue
Date: September 2003
Publisher: International Reading Association
Journal: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
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A teacher educator uses an apprentice reading project to teach new teachers about the ways they read in the content areas.
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Thinking About Thinking: Using the Reading Apprenticeship Approach to Improve Reading in the Classroom
Author: Randall S. Smith
Date: Fall 2001
Journal: Arizona Reading Journal
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"Teachers and students discuss their personal literacy histories, how they deal with reading difficulties, how the recognize when meaning breaks down..."
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Reading Apprenticeship: A Powerful Tool for Improving Science Literacy
Author: Gary Scott
Date: November/December 20
Journal: California Classroom Science
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Teaching Reading in Science: Personal Professional Reflections
Author: Dr. Willard Brown
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Notes from a presentation to the Secondary Reading Class at the University of California, Berkeley on 4/4/01.The class appreciated this account from a "real teacher" about the why's and how's of embedding reading instruction in the content areas.
"In the fall semester my classes progress less quickly through the textbook than some of my colleagues' classes that are not using RA or the like. By spring we have caught up or passed by because students are reading more independently"...
"I find parallels between RA and Science inquiry. So RA supports student development of science inquiry skills."
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