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"Amidst Familial Gatherings": Reading Apprenticeship in a Middle School Classroom Author: Jordan, M., Jensen, R., Greenleaf, C. Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English Publication Date: 2001, May Journal: Voices from the Middle Journal Volume: 8(4) Pages: 15-24 Full text available online at: http://www.wested.org/cs/sli/query/q/1351 Abstract (written by WestEd): This article describes Reading Apprenticeship, an approach to adolescent reading improvement in which teachers apprentice students into the strategies skilled readers use. It demonstrates the program at work in one seventh- and eighth-grade classroom and discusses four key dimensions of classroom life: social (building community); personal(connecting to reading); cognitive (developing a tool kit); and knowledge-building (tapping resources). After landing on the URL page, scroll down the page to download this article. |
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