ReciprocalTeaching

=Reciprocal Teaching= //To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -Edmund Burke//

Reciprocal teaching is an instructional approach that supports students in develop four key comprehension skills, i.e. predicting, summarizing, clarifying, and questioning. The instructional approach can be used by students individually to monitor their own comprehension or with a peer as they partner read text. A small group of students can also use reciprocal teaching to engage in a discussion about what they are reading, where each students plays a role as one of the four comprehension strategies.

Bookmarks for Reciprocal Teaching
[|Bookmarks for Reciprocal Teacher.pdf]

Recording Sheets
[|Recording Sheet for Reciprocal Teaching.pdf] [|Tic Tac Toe for Reciproal Teaching.pdf] [|Fab 4 Recording Sheet.doc] (Thank you to S. Bouchie at the Ferrway)

Articles Explaining Reciprocal Teaching
[|What is Reciprocal Teaching.pdf] [|Reciprocal Teaching in Kindergarten.pdf] [|Guide to go with Reciprocal Teachign Video.pdf]

Other Resources
[|Reciprocal Teaching Role Cards.pdf] (Thank you to L. Ferranti for these role cards.) [|Reciprocal Teaching Cards.pdf] (Easy way to get a small group to use reciprocal teaching.) [|reciprocal teaching cube.pdf] (Copy this cube on tagboard. Cut and tape to form cube. Student use cube in small group or while partner reading to determine what comprehension strategy they will use before continuing to read.) [|Great Resources for Reciprocal Teaching] (See the role cards and posters.)

Posters for Each of the Strategies
Note: Try having students help you make icons and anchor charts with you. They will take more ownership for the strategies and are more likely to use the anchor chart while they read and use reciprocal teaching. Thank you to E. Bennett for this resource. [|Clarifying Strategy Poster.pdf] [|Prediction Strategy Poster.pdf] [|Summarizing Strategy Poster.pdf] [|Questioning Strategy Poster.pdf] [|Activate Prior Knowledge Strategy Poster.pdf] [|Metacognition Strategy Poster.pdf]

[|Carey the CONNECTOR.pdf] [|Casey the CLARIFIER.pdf] [|Izzy the INFERENCE INVESTIGATOR.pdf] [|Pat the PREDICTOR.pdf] [|Quinn the QUESTIONER.pdf] [|Sal the Synthesizer.pdf] [|Sammy the SUMMARIZER.pdf]
 * Comprehension Strategies (Thank you to S. Piso at the Ferryway for this Resource)**

Predicting
[|Possible Sentences.pdf]

Clarifying/Monitoring Comprehension
[|Click Clunk Strategy Description.pdf] [|Clunk Cards.pdf] [|Reading for Understanding.pdf]

Questioning
Getting students to ask good questions is a challenge. As they get comfortable with the routines for reciprocal teaching, you may want to introduce QAR as a strategy to deepen questioning. Also, the Q-Chart is a great strategy for getting multiple types of questions. See Our Page About Question Answer Relationships media type="file" key="q_chart.mp3" width="240" height="20" [|Example Q-Chart] [|Q_Chart_fillableform.pdf] [|Presentation on How to use Q Chart] [|Ideas for How to Use the Q-Chart.pdf] (Thank you to M. Donoghue for the ideas.) [|Marzano's Question Stems] [|Beat the Teacher.pdf] (A fun activity students will enjoy as they generate questions that syump the teacher.)
 * Listen to an explanation of how to use the Q-chart.**

Summarizing
Getting good summaries from students is not an easy task. Two instructional approaches to help are Get the Gist and Paragraph Shrinking. [|Resources and Explanation of Get the Gist] [|Description of Paragraph Shrinking.pdf] (Thank you to Bay State for this resource.) [|Description of Paragraph Shrinking.pdf] [|Very Important Points.pdf] (Students will love the sticky notes in this instructional strategy.) [|Post It Notes Strategy] [|Key Word Strategy.pdf] [|Key Word Strategy Poster.pdf]

If students are having difficulty with summarizing, you may need to go back and help students retell the text. However, as students become comfortable retelling, we then need then to use the higher level strategy of summarizing. [|Story Retell Scaffold.pdf] (Giving struggling students the same prompts for a retell is important.) [|Connectives.pdf] (Connectives are often called transitional words or phrases. sing these words in your everyday language with students and in retelling will help students incorporate the words into their vocabulary.) [|Read, Cover, Remember, Retell.pdf] (Simple strategy to have students slow down and think about what they are reading.)
 * Retelling**