1. Reciprocal Teaching Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

2. Goals of Reciprocal Teaching
To improve students’ reading comprehension using four strategies:
Predicting
Questioning
Clarifying
Summarizing

3. Reciprocal Teaching Strategies
“The Fabulous Four”

4. Madam, the Powerful Predictor
Previewing the text to anticipate what might happen next
Assists students in setting a purpose for reading and in monitoring their comprehension

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

6. Quincy, the Quizzical Questioner
Good readers ask questions throughout the reading process
Students learn to generate questions about a text’s main idea, important details and textual inferences

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

8. 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.

9. 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…

10. Clarifying Strategies
To clarify an idea:
To clarify a word:
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.
I reread.
I look for word parts I know.
I try to blend the sounds together.
I think of another word that looks like this word.
I read on to find clues.
I try another word that makes sense.

11. Sammy, 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.

12. 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…