Reciprocal Teaching

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Reciprocal Teaching
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Reciprocal teaching

• It facilitates the construction of deeper meaning
  to text through a modeling process that
  emphasizes reader control of questioning,
  clarifying, summarizing and predicting.
• It is a group effort between teacher and students
  that leads students to greater independence as
  critical readers as they share their unique
  understandings of parts of the text. Helping
  students learn how to attend to clues as they
  read to recognize patterns or commonalities is
  critical to successful prediction.

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Reciprocal Teaching

• Levels 18/20
• Reading to Learn Model
• Focus on higher level comprehension strategies
• Focus on higher level decoding strategies
• Interactive model
• Works well with both fiction and nonfiction

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Four comprehension strategies

• Predicting helps students hypothesize what will
  occur in text. The students activate prior
  knowledge. A purpose for reading is developed
• Clarifying students learn to monitor their
  comprehension by thinking about what they are
  reading and applying decoding strategies, as well
  as strategies for clarifying confusing or unknown
  concepts when something does not make sense.
• Questioning students are responsible for
  formulating questions to ask the group based on
  text information (student generated).
• Summarizing helps students identify the most
  important information in the text.

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Suggestions for Implementation

• Teach the four reciprocal strategies to your
  entire class.
• Use the four reciprocal strategies throughout the
  day, especially during content lessons.
• Consistently model how to do the four strategies.
• Post a strategy chart where you meet for small
  group instruction.
• Provide individual strategy cards for students to
  use in the small group.
• Use the CMT/CAPT skills chart to develop a focus
  of instruction.
• Extend lessons with the use of graphic organizers
  to increase reading comprehension.
• Extend graphic organizers with summary writing to
  increase reading comprehension.
• Provide students with many opportunities for
  directed silent reading.