How to go deeper into Reading Apprenticeship

Here is the handout from the in-service presentation "But they don't read it!" from Sept. 30, including a collection of links and resources for more information about Reading Apprenticeship.

Several people have asked for books to read about the method:

The book I have found most inspiring is Building Academic Literacy: Lessons from Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms, Grades 6-12, edited by Audrey Fielding, Ruth Schoenbach, and Marean Jordan (scroll down if you use this link). In the first section a teacher who uses the method describes how he used the method, giving you the blow by blow details and showing the structure and delivery of a whole unit. I found it very helpful and concrete and exciting. The subsequent sections are written by other teachers using the method in different ways but I didn't find them as useful. Some of the teacher/writers seemed to have an emerging level grasp of the method and described difficulties they had in implementation. This book is available through LCC's Summit interlibrary loan and also can be purchased cheaply, used, through Amazon. 

Another resource is Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms, 2nd Edition, by Ruth Schoenbach, Cynthia L. Greenleaf, and Lynn Murphy (scroll down if you use the link).  This is a longer book with a complete teaching guide and filled with useful resources. It's helpful and I'm excited to learn from it, but somehow I don't enjoy reading it. There is something removed about the writing. I can't put my finger on it, but it seems to be lacking concrete and direct voice. If I think of this as a reference book it seems more useful. It is chock full of amazing resources. This is available through LCC's library as an ebook that you can read online or download for up to 7 days. I imagine you could print sections for future reference but haven't tried it. I bought it from the WestEd website linked above. It's also available used on Amazon.

A third resource is Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship, edited by Audrey Fielding, and Ruth Schoenbach (scroll down if you use this link). This is a collection of readings that English and Reading teachers could use as a student text to raise themes for discussion. I wasn't wowed by every selection, but that's a bit unrealistic of me, isn't it? It might be useful to use until you built up your own collection of materials. Seems like there should be enough OER materials on these themes to save the cost of student texts.