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Reading Apprenticeship
Personal Reading History
"I don't remember reading much at first. I went to lecture. Then in grad school I had to read. My professors didn't lecture much. Then it became all about 'do it again, do it again, do it again...' and I didn't have much support. It was just go to the library and figure it out."
-- Rick Hough
Math
"At the beginning, I didn't spend much time in the text. Then sophomore year, I started reading the text more. But junior and senior year, I was buying the book early and getting started before the semester. By senior year, I was buying supplementary books because I had these projects and I needed more resources."
-- Nick Langhoff
Engineering and Computer Science
"Comic books start with curiosity... what's going to happen next?" -- LK
"I had to work a lot, so it was really hard to read. I liked science fiction, so that was fun, but there weren't a lot of resources at the time. And my family didn't really understand that I had to go do my reading. At times, I had to lay down the law with tthem and say, 'It's time for me to study.'"
-- Tonya Atkins
Chemistry
Students often have a fixed reader identity, thinking "I'm not a reader, I'll watch a YouTube video..." So sometimes when we give reading assignments, we are asking our students to change their identities. Reading Apprenticeship helps students to experience what they need to have a transformation in their reader identity. The Personal Reading History is a way to build a foundations for students to access the transformation that we want them to experience in their reader ideintity. -- Lilit Haroyan
Reading for Understanding page 78-80
