Reading Pedagogy

This open textbook for undergraduate students provides instructors and students alike with clear and thoughtful guidance on how to cultivate more mindful reading pedagogy. Carillo focuses on the variety of strategies students can use to navigate a variety of difficult, college-level texts.

In this peer-reviewed article, Horning directly confronts the common instructional concern that students can't and don't read. Horning addresses why students struggle with college-level reading tasks and then provides four core strategies that instructors can use to address these concerns.

The author interviews undergraduate students about their reading experiences and discovers the myriad challenges that students face in navigating their reading assignments, from understanding the reading assignments themselves, to accessing the readings and making time for reading.

Skim, Dive, Surface invites readers to focus on the spectrum of affordances available for reading within digital learning environments. Acknowledging that college students are reading on-screen all the time, this book is designed to help college instructors across the curriculum teach digital reading in their classes, whether they teach face-to-face, fully online, or somewhere in between.

Styled as a dialogue between multiple instructor perspectives, this article demonstrates both in its theory and its practice why engaging in reading as a collaborative practice can benefit student learning. Maha Bali, Ashley Boyd, and Remi Kalir carefully map out how collaborative practices are culturally situated, while still remarking upon the power affordances of online infrastructures for helping students understand reading as part of a conversation.