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Tools for Understanding Complex Text: Reading Apprenticeship

Tools for Understanding Complex Text: Reading Apprenticeship. Strengthening Student Success Conference October 4, 2007 Jane Braunger, Senior Research Associate Strategic Literacy Initiative, SLI/WestEd www.wested.org/SLI. Session Purpose:.

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Tools for Understanding Complex Text: Reading Apprenticeship

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  1. Tools for Understanding Complex Text: Reading Apprenticeship Strengthening Student Success Conference October 4, 2007 Jane Braunger, Senior Research Associate Strategic Literacy Initiative, SLI/WestEd www.wested.org/SLI

  2. Session Purpose: Introduce Reading Apprenticeship as a resource for community college literacy acceleration and academic engagement/empowerment Provide participants with an opportunity to explore literacy issues by looking at one classroom discussion of a text. Provide participants with an opportunity to explore solutions through looking at SI program at Merced College

  3. History of Community College Reading Apprenticeship Work • 2004-2005 Los Medanos College • 2005-2006 Laney, Merced, City College • 2006-2007 Chabot, Pasadena, and more • 2007-2008 1st All-Community College Leadership Institute for Reading Apprenticeship [8 CA., 1 MS., 1 PA.]

  4. Reading Apprenticeship:An instructional framework Interacting dimensions • Social Dimension • Personal Dimension • Cognitive Dimension • Knowledge-Building Dimension Metacognitive conversation is central

  5. Quality Classroom Conversation • Refer to text for evidence • Build understanding of difficult concepts through collaborative meaning-making • Use academic language and conventions of academic conversation Beating the Odds study (Langer et al, 2005) Accountable Talk (Resnick et al, 2003)

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