Reading Apprenticeship is an approach to reading instruction that helps young people
develop the knowledge, strategies, and dispositions they need to become more powerful
readers. It is at heart a partnership of expertise, drawing on what teachers know and do as
discipline-based readers, and on adolescents’ unique and often underestimated strengths
as learners.
Reading Apprenticeship helps students become better readers by:
• engaging students in more reading—for recreation as well as for subject-area learning
and self-challenge;
• making the teacher’s discipline-based reading processes and knowledge visible to students;
• making students’ reading processes, motivations, strategies, knowledge, and understandings
visible to the teacher and to one another;
• helping students gain insight into their own reading processes; and
• helping them develop a repertoire of problem-solving strategies for overcoming obstacles
and deepening comprehension of texts from various academic disciplines.
