Reciprocal Teaching Refers to an instructional activity in which students become the teacher in small group reading sessions.

Teachers model, then help students learn to guide group discussions using four strategies: summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting. (Reading Rockets, 2013) Benefits : Determines important ideas through reading. : Develop own ideas and questions. (Adult Literacy, 2013) How and When: This strategy is first modeled by the teacher where they model how to use four different comprehension strategies when reading a passage in a story. The reciprocal teaching strategy includes summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. As time progresses the teacher will release the control to the students, and they will assume each role, and take terms in leading the discussion. (Dean, Hubbell, Pitler, Stone, 2012) Focus: The focus of this strategy is summarizing and note taking. The students will complete a graphic organizer where they listen to a passage read by the teacher and they will answer the four different comprehension strategies on their own. This strategy encompasses all four aspects of reciprocal teaching, because the students have to be engaged in the whole passage instead of focusing on their question they have to answer. Teaching Practice: Once the students have their own answers, they can talk with their group members to see if they have similar answers. After five minutes of discussion the teacher will assign each group a role; summarizer, questioner, clarifier, or predictor, then as a group the students will come up an answer to explain to the class.
Summarizing Questioning Clarifying Predicting

: Discussion of unknown vocabulary. : Practices summarizing skills.

The students will read a short passage, and summarize what has been read, heard, or seen. The students will ask questions that are designed to help identify important information. The students will clarify any vocabulary words, pronunciations, or terms the group many not know. The students will predict about what will happen next in the story.

(Dean et al., 2012)

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