Breakthroughs in College Reading

This collection offers snapshots and reflections on teaching reading in disciplinary contexts, grounded in threshold concept theory and the experiences of practitioners. Chapters describe activities, routines, and practices that help students struggle successfully with academic reading. How do we help college students become independent learners in their disciplines? In this collection, the editors and contributors argue that we do so by supporting students in learning from texts, which entails recognizing reading as a problem-solving process, supporting students to take responsibility for the intellectual work in their classes, and creating strong classroom communities that help students develop identities as scholars.