Reciprocal Teaching: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

The 4 parts of Reciprocal Teaching Predicting Questioning Clarifying Summarizing

The Powerful Predictor Preview the text to anticipate what might happen next Set a purpose for reading and then monitor your comprehension

Predicting I think….. I’ll bet…. I wonder if…. I imagine…. I suppose…. I predict….

The Quizzical Questioner Good readers ask questions throughout the reading process You will learn to generate questions about a text’s central idea, important details, and textual inferences

Language of questioning: Who? What? Where? When ? Why? How? What if? I wonder...

Clara, the Careful Clarifier Clarifying helps students monitor their own comprehension as they identify problems that they are having comprehending parts of the text. Teacher and the student share “fix-up” strategies to construct meaning.

Language of clarifying: I didn’t understand the part where… This {sentence, paragraph, page, chapter} is not clear. I can’t figure out… This is a tricky word because…

Clarifying Strategies To clarify an idea: To clarify a word: I reread. I look for word parts I know. I read on to find clues. I try another word that makes sense. I look it up in the dictionary. I reread the parts that I didn’t understand. I read on to look for clues. I think about what I know. I talk to a friend.

The Super Summarizer To summarize effectively, students must recall and arrange in order only the important events in the text. Summary organization is based on the type of text: narrative or expository.

The language of summarizing: The most important ideas in this text are… This part was about… The book was about… First… Next… Then… Finally… The story takes place… The main characters are… A problem occurs when…