Engaged Academic Literacy for All With Reading Apprenticeship

Description

Have you ever worried about whether your students are reading and/or comprehending the texts you assign? Have you found yourself planning around the text? Do you want to encourage students to use their course texts as a key part of their learning and to gain independence in doing so? This workshop explores the Reading Apprenticeship framework, which helps instructors support students across all disciplines and levels to become motivated, strategic, and critical readers, thinkers, and writers; to develop positive literacy identities; and to engage with challenging academic texts. Workshop participants engage in metacognitive conversations centered on complex disciplinary texts. By discovering and reflecting on their own ways of unlocking course content, they experience ways the Reading Apprenticeship approach helps students master core concepts and helps instructors explicitly support academic literacy in their discipline.

By the end of this workshop, participants know or be able to:

• Demonstrate their own reading processes and to see reading as a discipline-based, problem-solving activity.
• Describe Reading Apprenticeship as an instructional framework connecting rigorous academic work with social-emotional aspects of learning through.
• Experience and analyze the impact of several metacognitive routines in order to begin planning classroom applications.
• Analyze students' reading, talking, and writing about reading with a focus on equity and on building on students' strengths rather than deficits.

Plans for Audience Participation and Interaction:

Participate in text-based metacognitive routines, reflective pair and small group activities, a student video-case study, and classroom planning.