STRATEGY CENTER:
Reciprocal Teaching
(Not to confused with: RECIPROCAL LEARNING)
THE PROTOCOL
THE TEMPLATEOne of the nice things about Reciprocal Teaching is that the teacher does not have to write specific questions for any given text. Instead, students need to be trained how to use the method, and provided with sentence starters that they can use if they get stuck. Each of the three videos to the right provide examples of sentence starters.
The image below shows one possible document students could use for recording ideas in each category that they discuss while using the protocol. In this example, the teacher has replaced the "Clarify" role with "Connect" (the student connects the ideas from the reading to examples in the world, or in their own life). Notice also that this handout asks students to share 3 key ideas (summarizer), 3 questions (questioner), and so on. This would be if students read 3 paragraphs together and identified them at the end. More commonly, students would read a paragraph aloud together, and then stop to each provide 1 summary, 1 questions, 1 prediction and 1 clarification (or connection) each (depending upon their assigned role). |
THE VIDEOSBELOW (click on image to enlarge): A variation in which the 4th student connects ideas from the reading to the world, instead of clarifying what is next (other variations include drawing the ideas).
VIDEO EXPLANATION FOR STUDENTS:
USING RECIPROCAL TEACHING WITH MATH PROBLEM SOLVING (example):
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