Reciprocal Reading

We will be using 4 reading strategies: Predicting Clarifying Questioning Summarising

Predict Use what you have read or clues from the illustrations to help figure out what the text will be about or what will happen next. You can change your predictions as you read on! I think …. I’ll bet… I wonder if … I imagine … I suppose … I predict … I think this text will be about…

Clarify You must clarify whenever you: Read a word you don’t understand. Find that sentence doesn’t make sense. Are confused by what you have read. Think about what you did to help you understand.

Question Ask and answer questions which will help you to understand what has been read. If you ask a question you must know the answer or be willing to learn from others. Who… What… When… Where… Why… How… What if…

Summarise Tell the group/write down what you have read in your own words. Only tell the important information, not the little details. Keep it as short as you can! It is a reminder of what has been read so far. The most important ideas are … The main idea is … This part was about … First, ….. Next, …. Then, … This story takes place in … The main characters are … The problem of the story is …

These four strategies will help you to become an excellent reader!

Examples of how it works: Top Juniors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oXskcnb4RA Introduction to the Fab Four https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwnyyj_5Cxg Infants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4mSVXDCjE

Feedback from year 4 I think it has very valid learning skills and it is good to be able to use the skills that it gives you. I really like it because then when I’m reading my book at home I feel like I really understand what I’m reading. I like it how it usually makes me learn new words because I don’t know a lot of the words in the text. I think it’s really good because it’s also good for a cool down and prepares you for English lessons. It incorporates a lot of skills we need in our hot tasks. It helps to build up speed of reading.