Start the quarter off right by focusing on the personal and social dimensions in your classroom.
Use a Personal Reading History (PRH) to get to know a little about each student enrolled in your classroom. These templates are available at the Libguide and our website. The value of asking your students about their reading histories sets the stage for a shared discussion about reading strengths, weaknesses, and reading needs. You set the stage for placing reading in the spotlight and when you do this, the students realize that you value their struggles, ideas, and processes of reading.
Next, begin a Readers Strategy List or Lists. This allows students to tell you what they do to approach text. Each type of text may need its own list.
Model your reading. Using a document camera or overhead, show the students “how” you read text in your field. Focus on the signposts and the specialized use of language and structures that help you decode, decipher, and make meaning.
Allow time for reflection and discussion about student misreadings or misconceptions about texts. This should be done regularly and in an open atmosphere that fosters metacognitive conversations. Use inquiry questions to help students own their learning and engage with their texts. Some phrases that promote metacognitive conversations: Where in the text does that come to light? What made you arrive at this conclusion? Tell me more about the point …. How does that affect your thinking? Does this idea connect with previous texts we have read? In what ways is this meaningful to you?
The goal of the Reading Apprenticeship framework is to provide a venue for shared access to text and to offer our classrooms insight into how you, the expert, in reading approach and process the reading tasks over the wide variety of texts that are specific to your discipline.
RTC has made a commitment to help all full and part time faculty who would like to learn about Reading Apprenticeship an opportunity to do so. To meet your varied needs we offer the following services:
Professional Development Opportunities
Mentoring and Face-to-Face Assistance
Online Documents and Support
Here are five videos with RTC instructor Michele Lesmeister and librarian Debbie Crumb talking about how RTC promoted Reading Apprenticeship on their campus.
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