ALL ABOUT READING
Reciprocal Teaching
Developed in 1984 by Annemarie Palincsar and Ann Brown
What: This strategy is a scaffold discussion technique that incorporates four main strategies- predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing- that good readers use together to comprehend text. Lori Oczkus
Who: individual, small group, whole group; any grade level, any content area
When: You would use this when you want to develop students' comprehension skills.
Why: This strategy promotes student-centered learning, helps students internalize skills to improve comprehension, encourages students to think about their own thought process during reading, and teaches students to ask questions during reading.
How:
- create groups of 4 or 5 students
- distribute role cards (clarifier, summarizer, predictor, questioner
- provide text to read with starting and stopping points to role play
- distribute script to leader