School teams are encouraged. This course is partially funded by a Benedum Foundation grant. A one credit followup course will be held during the school year.

Reading ApprenticeshipTM is a framework for helping students to improve reading comprehension skills in all subject areas.

Teachers and students alike thrive in a Reading ApprenticeshipTM environment because it:

• enhances content area classes through a focus on comprehension
• is an integrated, inquiry-based approach that gives teachers the power to teach in the true sense of being mentors, motivators, experts, and collaborators
• gives students the guidance and skills to take charge of their own learning.
• requires teachers to reveal the strategies, skills, and background knowledge they use to make sense of text, in much the same way a craftsperson might reveal the secrets of their trade
• allows students to collaborate with teachers and other students to solve real-world problems.
• is on-the-job training.
• allows teachers to guide the process as everyone contributes to the comprehension of the text.
• is not about re-teaching phonics to 16-year-olds
• is "metacognition," or thinking about how we think
• is helping students to gain confidence in their ability to understand complex, academic subject matter.
• is flexible.