Rethinking Preparation for Content Area Teaching : The Reading Apprenticeship Approach

by Braunger, Jane; Donahue, David M.; Evans, Kate; Galguera, Tomá; s; Schoenbach, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780787971663
• ISBN10: 0787971669
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-12
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

The Reading Apprenticeship (RA) framework has received national recognition as an effective, research-based instructional approach that supports all students in successfully engaging with and learning from academic texts. First introduced in Reading for Understanding by Ruth Schoenbach et al., the approach is based on a program with a proven record of success in boosting the reading levels of urban high school students. Emphasizing social, personal, cognitive, and knowledge-building tools, the Reading Apprenticeship approach can be useful to teachers in any content area classroom. In Rethinking Preparation for Content Area Teaching, Jane Braunger and her co-authors make the case for incorporating the Reading Apprenticeship instructional model into secondary teacher preparation programs. Arguing that teacher education programs need to foster a broader understanding of adolescent literacy, especially if teachers are to help their students read in discipline-specific ways, the authors show how RA can serve to strengthen content-based instruction, how elements of the model can be embedded in teacher preparation curricula, and what types of course activities enable new teachers to understand and practice this approach.Finally, a book to help teacher educators who are called upon to teach the course Reading in the Content Areas. In reading this book, I felt I had struck the proverbial goldmine: terrific course projects that will model for pre-service and in-service teachers precisely the kinds of metacognitive and discipline-based strategies that will be engaging and effective for their future students. --Linda Miller Cleary, professor of English education, Morse Alumni Professor of Distinguished Teaching, University of Minnesota, DuluthFinally, a book on content area literacy with a bigger vision concerning what it means for adolescents to read in the disciplines and how teachers can support such reading. --Stephen B. Kucer, associate professor of language and literacy education, Division of Curriculum and Teaching, Fordham University-Lincoln CenterBraunger and colleagues offer a set of practices for engaging preservice teachers in learning how to use literacy in content teaching. Their approach is a vast improvement over former models of content-area literacy teacher education. The book is thick with resources, strategies, and reflective practices, and I look forward to using it as a resource for my own teacher education and professional development practices in large urban middle schools and high schools. --Elizabeth Birr Moje, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Educational Studies, University of MichiganUnique in content area texts, the instructional strategies depicted in this work are grounded in a coherent theoretical frame and presented in real-life classroom complexities. I see many ways of using and adapting the assignments and classroom practices in my own preservice and graduate courses. --Jayne DeLawter, professor of reading and language education, Sonoma State UniversityIt is refreshing to read a book geared for teaching preservice and practicing teachers that respects the knowledge they bring to the classroom and builds upon their abilities to take critical and inquiring stances on content area literacy. --Robert Anthony Fecho, associate professor of teacher education, University of Georgia

Author Biography

<b>Jane Braunger</b> is senior research associate for the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd. <p> <b>David M. Donahue</b> is assistant professor of education at Mills College, Oakland, California. <p> <b>Kate Evans</b>, formerly assistant professor of education at San Jose State University, now teachers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. <p> <b>Tomas Galguera</b> is associate professor of education at Mills College, Oakland, California

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Ruth Schoenbach
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xxi
The Sponsors	xxiii
The Authors	xxv
Contributors	xxvii
Preparing All Teachers as Teachers of Reading: Challenges and Visions	1	(20)
Framing Content Area Instruction with Reading Apprenticeship	21	(26)
Apprenticing Teachers to Reading in the Disciplines	47	(28)
Promoting Inquiry into Student Reading Practices	75	(22)
Linking Reading Strategies to Content Instruction	97	(36)
Broadening the Curriculum with Alternative Texts	133	(16)
Supporting English Learners with Reading Apprenticeship	149	(24)
Evaluating Reading Intervention Programs	173	(26)
Partnering for Improved Academic Literacy: A University-District Collaboration	199	(28)
Richard D. Sawyer
Diana Bledsoe
Translating Preservice Inquiry to the Classroom: Dilemmas for New Teachers	227	(20)
Teacher Preparation for Academic Literacy: Summary and Recommendations	247	(6)
Appendix A. Understanding Metacognition: Literacy Autobiography	253	(16)
Cathleen D. Rafferty
Appendix B. Reading in Mathematics: Inquiry with Preservice Teachers	269	(14)
Virginia Draper
Name Index	283	(3)
Subject Index	286