RECIPROCAL TEACHING IN ACTION

Consider the questions for further reflection.

  1. Which reciprocal teaching strategies do your students need most?
  2. What texts could be used to teach the strategies?
  3. What ways can students practice the four strategies on their own throughout the school year?

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CLOSING AND FOLLOW-UP

Lesson Summary

In this lesson, you had the opportunity to:

  • Learn about reciprocal teaching, which is the use of summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting content to increase reading comprehension and use of student “teachers.”
  • Review four comprehension strategies.
  • Reflect on how reciprocal teaching can be taught and reinforced in the classroom.

 Next Steps

  • Think about what you can do in the next week, the next month, and for the remainder of the school year to help your students use reciprocal teaching strategies. Use the Reciprocal Teaching Practice Profile to gauge your efforts.
  • Using what you have learned in this learning package, meet with your colleagues to discuss some ideas for implementing reciprocal teaching.