Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's the problem? -- Close reading and the common core -- Reading, fast and slow -- Theory to practice : reading in first-year writing classes -- Theory to practice : reading across the curriculum -- The ethics of teaching reading -- Appendix 1. Facts and fiction : are literary texts a special case? -- Appendix 2. Sample reading-support instructions for history -- Appendix 3. Sample faculty-workshop exercise responses -- Appendix 4. Sample assignments for a first-year course sequence.

Synthesizing theory from literacy scholars with strategies derived from classroom inquiry projects, this book argues for more--and more systematic--attention to the role of reading comprehension in college as a necessary step in addressing the inequities in student achievement that otherwise increase over time. It shows how faculty at all curricular levels can improve student outcomes by rethinking their assumptions about what students know and can do as apprentices in a field.

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