Reading Apprenticeship Workshops

Time: Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.; Workshop: 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Location: Days 1 & 2: Palmyra Middle School, 50 W. Cherry Street, Palmyra, 17078; Days 3 & 4: IU 13 Lancaster Conference Center (Burle Business Park), 1020 New Holland Avenue
Target Audience: RA recommends a team consisting of middle and high school teachers (math, science, social studies, language arts, English, reading), librarians, reading specialists, building principals
Cost: $225.00 per person for IU 13 District Member; $300.00 for outside IU 13 Districts (includes continental breakfast, lunch, and materials for all 4 days)

Description: Reading Apprenticeship is a metacognitive approach to reading instruction that helps students develop knowledge, strategies, and dispositions they need to become more powerful readers and writers. The four dimensions of the Reading Apprenticeship framework are: personal, social, cognitive and knowledge building. The 2004 Reading Next report on middle and high school literacy includes Reading Apprenticeship as one of the fifteen elements of effective literacy programs. Drawing on what discipline-based readers do, Reading Apprenticeship helps students become better readers of challenging content area texts. The program engages students in recreational as well as subject area reading; makes the teachers' content area reading strategies visible to the student; makes the students' reading processes, motivations, and knowledge visible to the teacher; helps students gain insight to their own reading processes; and enables students to build a repertoire of problem-solving strategies for deepening their comprehension of challenging content area texts. Participants should be prepared to bring content reading materials to each session in order to directly apply strategies