Why use Reading Apprenticeship?
This is a document that Harvard College sends to incoming freshmen to prepare them for academic life. “Interrogating Texts: Six Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard” describes reading behaviors that will help students get the most out of text. The suggestions include previewing, annotating, summarizing and analyzing, looking for patterns, contextualizing, and comparing and contrasting. All of these contribute to thoughtful reading. Here we share what Harvard has to say about annotating or what we call talking to the text, because this skill offers a terrific opportunity for kids to merge their thinking with the information.
Harvard Letter
We asked students around Washtenaw County to tell us about their Reading Apprenticeship experiences.
“These strategies did not help me at all…they slowed me down and made me think about what I was reading.”
“I noticed that my reading has changed and I stop to think about the book more when I read now; it slows my reading down but I understand the book better.”
“The reading strategies which I found the most useful throughout the year, helped me improve my grades because they gave me the knowledge to be able to comprehend the more difficult readings I have to do in English 9 and in my other classes.”
“I have become a better reader not only in English, but in other classes like Biology because I am able to take in information after I read it once and not multiple times.”
Harvard Letter
We asked students around Washtenaw County to tell us about their Reading Apprenticeship experiences.
“These strategies did not help me at all…they slowed me down and made me think about what I was reading.”
“I noticed that my reading has changed and I stop to think about the book more when I read now; it slows my reading down but I understand the book better.”
“The reading strategies which I found the most useful throughout the year, helped me improve my grades because they gave me the knowledge to be able to comprehend the more difficult readings I have to do in English 9 and in my other classes.”
“I have become a better reader not only in English, but in other classes like Biology because I am able to take in information after I read it once and not multiple times.”
