The Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) is a professional development and research project of WestEd. The project serves middle and high school teachers and administrators, literacy coaches, and teacher educators nationally. SLI's book, Reading for Understanding:

A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms, describes the Reading Apprenticeship® framework and the 9th grade Academic Literacy course developed in collaboration with teams of teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area.   More detail...