1. Reciprocal Teaching: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

2. The 4 parts of Reciprocal Teaching
Predicting
Questioning
Clarifying
Summarizing

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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.

8. 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…

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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…