Cynthia Greenleaf

For more than two decades, Dr. Cynthia Greenleaf has conducted cutting-edge research in adolescent literacy and translated it into powerful teacher professional development. Her work co-developing the Reading Apprenticeship Instructional Framework has changed classrooms for hundreds of thousands of secondary and college students and their teachers. As Co-Director of the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd, Dr. Greenleaf oversees ongoing R&D for the project, design of learning engagements for teachers and students, and studies of the effects of this work in order to increase its efficacy and impact.

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The newly revised Third Edition of Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms is the latest iteration of the landmark book in the field of adolescent literacy. The book contains strategies for boosting the reading independence of middle, secondary, and college students.

Research conducted by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the Office of Innovation and Improvement has validated the model taught in Reading for Understanding, demonstrating its effectiveness in raising students’ reading achievement levels.

Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms

Cynthia Greenleaf, Ruth Schoenbach, Linda Friedrich, Lynn Murphy, Nika Hogan

Age Level:

Adult

Genre:

Education Research

Published:

2023

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Cynthia Greenleaf

Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms

Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement

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Cynthia Greenleaf

Books by this author

Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms

Articles by this author

Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement

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