Building academic literacy: lessons from reading apprenticeship classrooms

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Preface.Acknowledgments.1. Supporting Adolescent Readers: An Introduction to the Academic Literacy Course and the Reading Apprenticeship Framework (Ruth Schoenbach).2. A Really Good Conversation: Engaging Students in Working with Texts (Daniel Moulthrop).3. Awakening the Reader Within (Lisa Messina, Elizabeth Baker).4. The Voice Inside Your Head Asks, Are You Comprehending? (Carolyn Orta).5. Creating a Reading Apprenticeship Classroom (Amy Smith).6. Designing an Effective Academic Literacy Course (Ruth Schoenbach).Appendix A: Academic Literacy Four-Unit Curriculum Matrix.Appendix B: Academic Literacy Course Time Line: Embedding Routines Across the Year.Appendix C: Academic Literacy in English: Course Description.Appendix D: Academic Literacy, Unit Three: Reading History.Appendix E: Student Reading Survey.Appendix F: Academic Literacy Student Competencies.Appendix G: Degrees of Reading Power Test of Reading Comprehension.Appendix H: Degrees of Reading Power Readability Index for Anthology Selections.Notes.Bibliography.About the Authors.About the Sponsor.Index.