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OVERVIEW This site is a window into a reading apprenticeship classroom in a community college setting. The course is an integrated reading and writing course two levels below English 1A. By taking you through a typical class session (click on the four clock icons to the left), I hope to illustrate how incorporating the dimensions of a reading apprenticeship classrooms sets up a learning environment that helps students move from apprentices to more accomplished readers. I use this class format for every class session during the semester. While many instructors have experience if not formal training in the teaching of composition, fewer have experience or training in the teaching of reading. So how do you go beyond assigning readings to actually teaching students how to engage text, pose relevant questions, make meaningful connections, and sustain conversations about what they are reading? One way to do this is to take a reading apprenticeship approach. Developed by the Strategic Literacy Initiative of West Ed, reading apprenticeship is based on the premise that teachers are masters of reading in their discipline, and can "apprentice" their students to the art of reading. This approach incorporates research based pedagogies and addresses four major dimensions of classroom practice that support students in becoming master readers: personal, social, cognitive and knowledge building. To learn more about these dimensions of classroom practice, visit West Ed's The Reading Apprenticeship Framework site.
Los Medanos College
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Nancy Ybarra, an English teacher at Los Medanos College—a community college in Northern California—created these pages as a guide for teachers to help their students become more accomplished readers.
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