What is it? Why do it?

What Is Reading Apprenticeship?

Reading Apprenticeship® Links to an external site. is an instructional framework developed by WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) for supporting students to become more independent, stronger, critical readers of multiple types of texts. Reading Apprenticeship has been developed with communities of middle school and high school teachers since 1996 and with community college faculty since 2002. It has a long history of research Links to an external site. and publications Links to an external site.. In particular, community colleges in California Links to an external site. have conducted studies of Reading Apprenticeship in the STEM classes and found positive results.

"What is Reading Apprenticeship?" Links to an external site. by Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd Links to an external site. is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Links to an external site.

The Framework Links to an external site. (click on "jump to document" to reference the Framework on page 25, explanations of metacognition and the four dimensions from page 26-42 of this chapter 2 excerpt) is a guide which improves the metacognitive conversations we all want in our classrooms.

Why Reading Apprenticeship?

Impact and Stories from WestEd Links to an external site..

What does TCC faculty Links to an external site. say? Here are my thoughts and welcome Links to an external site.in a four minute video.

"What is it? Why do it?" by Danielle Ritter, Reading Apprenticeship Links to an external site., Tacoma Community College Links to an external site. is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Links to an external site.