Cynthia Greenleaf

Project READI (Reading, Evidence, and Argumentation in Disciplinary Instruction) defines reading for understanding in adolescence as the ability to engage in evidence-based argumentation across multiple texts and supports its learning in three disciplines: history, science, and English literature. Disciplinary literacy involves complex critical analysis processes as well as close attention to text. The research team proposes a model that captures these processes while attending to the psycho...

In this project, the researchers proposed to investigate the efficacy of the reading apprenticeship professional development program that aimed to improve teachers' integration of reading instruction into high school science and history and, thereby, to increase student reading and content proficiency. The professional development program was a response to the observations that many students who reach middle and high school do not possess sufficient reading skills to learn new knowledge when...