Overview

What is it?  It is a reading comprehension strategy involving four steps.  The four steps are summarize, question, clarify, and predict.

Why should I use Reciprocal Teaching? IIt helps to increase reading comprehension. IIt is used with a wide variety of text. IIt helps me become a “metacognitive” reader. IIt gives me a purpose for reading.

Where do I begin?  Step One:  Predict what you think the reading selection will be about.  Predicting involves previewing the text to anticipate what may happen next.  To predict, readers use information from the text and their own prior knowledge to make logical predictions before and during reading.  Sample predictions:  What will happen next?  Why do you think that is so?

What’s the second step? Step Two: Summarize the reading in your own words. Did you leave out details that do not matter? Did you tell only the most important ideas? Is your summary short and concise? Can you summarize in one or two sentences?

Question??????  Create questions that are based on important points in the reading.  Your questions may include question words such as who, what, when, where, why and how…  Try to increase the quality and depth of your questions. Step Three:

Clarify Step Four: Clarify words or ideas that you do not understand. To clarify a word: To clarify an idea: 1. Reread1. Reread the parts not 2. Chunk words understood 3. Blend sounds2. Think about what you already know 4. Read on to find clues 3. Read on to find clues 4. Talk to a friend

Your turn to try it…. Read the passage you have been given. Stop!!! Go through the four steps of Reciprocal Teaching