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Response to Feedback

Yay!!!
Hands on activities
Open and safe environment
Sharing with colleagues
In general
Best practices
Mix of small and whole group
discussions
Students perspectives
Good balance!
Genuine interest in us; enthusiasm

Hmm/Boo!!!
Can we mix groups more often?
Can we move more?
Can we have a day-to-day outline of
what we will be doing each day?
How do I design a good 1 page
syllabus?
How do I incorporate clickers or
smartphones?
No matter what, privilege and bias still
exist

Introduction to Reading Apprenticeship:


Making the Invisible Visible to our students
FTLA 2015

Do you recognize these students?


Are inexperienced but not
beginning readers
View reading as only a
school-based activity
Lack confidence and are
mentally passive with
reading
Appear to have limited
knowledge of topics in
school texts

Have limited
comprehension when they
do read academic texts
Are not held accountable for
much reading
Expend a lot of energy
covering up what they dont
understand

Michael Wesch
World on fire

Whatever

Thats not what I mean by text-based


discussion

WestEds
Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI )
A professional development and research
organization focusing on improving
academic literacy in diverse populations of
adolescents and post-secondary students
using Reading Apprenticeship, a researchbased instructional framework.
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Reading Apprenticeship
A partnership of expertise between the
teacher and students, drawing on what
content area teachers know and do as
skilled discipline-based readers and on
learners unique and often underestimated
strengths
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Dimensions of Reading Apprenticeship

Personal Reading History


When students reflect on and share their
personal reading histories, they have an
opportunity to view themselves and their
classmates more generously, as readers in
progress, with reader identities they can
understand and change
(Schoenbach, Greenleaf and Murphy 79).

Write about some key moments or events in


your development as a reader in your
discipline.
What experiences stand out for you? High points?
Low points?
Were there times when your reading experience or
the materials you were reading made you feel like
an insider? Like an outsider?
What supported your literacy development in this
subject area? What discouraged it?

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Personal Reading History


Share some highlights of your reading history with
a partner. Make sure that each of you has had an
opportunity to read or tell your story uninterrupted
before you respond to what youve heard.
Once both people have had a chance to share,
discuss what youve learned about each other:
what were some commonalities? What were some
surprises?
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Personal Reading History


What did you learn about yourself as a
reader? About your partner?
What supported your reading development?
What discouraged it?
What are some commonalities? Surprises?

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Reading Between the Lives


Chabot College students talk about reading
http://vimeo.com/3493640

Created by students and faculty in 2007 as


part of SPECC (Strengthening Precollegiate Education in Community
Colleges) Project
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Consider Assumptions about


teachers, students, and reading:
Students uses of reading and attitudes
towards reading
Students ways of dealing with difficult
texts
Assumptions about their role and about the
teachers role re understanding the reading

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Reading Between the Lives


What struck you about the students reading
experiences?
What connections can you make with the
students experiences in the video and your
own students?
What new ah-has or questions does the
video raise?
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Think Aloud
Helps students to notice and say when they are confused,
and use each other as resources for making meaning
Helps you to practice making your thinking visible, so you
can model effective ways of reading texts in your
discipline for students
Helps to give names to the cognitive strategies that we use
to comprehend text
Helps to notice text structures and how we navigate
various genres to build confidence, range, and stamina

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Debrief Think Aloud


What was the Think-Aloud experience like?
What did you notice you or your partner
doing?
Could you see yourself trying a Think
Aloud with your students and your class
text(s)?
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Debrief Think Aloud

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Debrief Think Aloud

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