1. “Successful Classroom Readers”
Reciprocal Teaching
“Successful Classroom Readers”

3. What strategies do
effective movie
watchers use?

4. What strategies do
successful readers
use?

5. Reciprocal Teaching Prediction Summarization Clarifying
Ask “Teacher-like” questions
Visualization

6. Reciprocal Teaching Interactive reading to build comprehension
Lessens frustration
Research based: Improvement after 20 lessons
Encourages re-reading and metacognition
Works best with struggling readers
Strategies may be used in any order

8. Predicting Most important prediction is the title or headline.
Other predictions: throughout chapter, headings, or subtitles.
Predicting questions:
What will happen next?
What will the character do next?

9. Clarifying
Slowing down or stopping to think about what the text is trying to communicate.
Pausing and re-reading until it makes sense.
Look for little words inside big words.
Look for commas that follow unfamiliar words.
Look for word parts.
Keep reading.

10. Visualization
Stopping to make a mental picture of what you are reading
Drawing pictures as you read
Choosing specific words that help form images

11. Teacher Like Questions
Asking questions about what you have just read
After you have predicted, visualized, and clarified.
Ask questions to help you understand the larger meanings of the lesson.
Questions that can be answered from what you have read. You must be able to find the answer in the text. (See bookmark)

12. Summarizing Giving the most important ideas in one or two sentences
Does not include details or information that is not important
Strategies
One sentence summary
GIST
Graphic Organizers