readingapprentice

Reading Apprenticeship is an approach to reading instruction that helps young people develop the knowledge, strategies, and dispositions they need to become more powerful readers. It is at heart a partnership of expertise, drawing on what teachers know and do as content-area readers, and on adolescents' unique and often underestimated strengths as learners. RA is based on these core ideas:
 * __Reading involves complex, invisible processes. Making these problem-solving processes visible helps students become independent, strategic readers.__
 * __Students are motivated when they are active agents in their own learning.__
 * __Students need to be apprenticed by content-area teachers to acquire the tools and strategies necessary for academic success.__
 * __Diversity in students’ language, culture, and experience is a resource for reading comprehension.__

Here are a few links that provide additional information on RA

http://www.mciu.org/mciu23/cwp/view.asp?a=620&Q=436817&PM=1&mciu23Nav=%7C6509%7C http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/serv/10

Here are workbooks with a brief description.

Day 1- Golden Lines, Final Word, 25 Word Abstract, Vocab Literacy, Think Aloud..





Day 2- Close Procedure, Schema, Talking to the Text, Word Sort, Survival Words, Anticipatory Guides, Give One- Get One



Day 3- Start the Reading Apprenticeship Process





Day 4- The Link Activity





Day 5- Sustained Silent Reading, Metacognitive Logs, Question- Answer- Response (QAR), Stump the Teacher, Hot Seat.



Sample Lessons- Here are a few RA lessons.