Apprenticing High School Students to Discipline Literacy

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Participants will be introduced to the Reading Apprenticeship framework through an introductory overview, hands-on practice of a core routine, and a description of Trenton High School’s successful school-wide implementation. The Reading Apprenticeship framework is an approach to engaging high school students in accelerated academic literacy learning. Content area teachers learn to make the invisible process of reading in their particular disciplines “visible” to their students. In this process, they listen for and build on what students already know and are able to do as literate and strategic young people to support and stretch their growth toward independence in academic reading and related writing tasks.

Presenters:
Ruth Schoenbach, Co-Director, WestEd, Strategic Literacy Initiative, Oakland, CA
Diane Waff, Director of Secondary Innovative Programs, Trenton Public Schools, Trenton, NJ