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Reciprocal Reading: Guiding Students to Text Comprehension

Expectations. What do you expect your students to do when you assign reading?Have you ever provided or taught strategies for reading text to your students? How did it work?What do you think your students expect to do when reading?Have you asked your students what strategies they know to help th

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Reciprocal Reading: Guiding Students to Text Comprehension

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    1. Ann A. Wolf, TeamUP Faculty Program Consultant ann.wolf@cengage.com Reciprocal Reading: Guiding Students to Text Comprehension

    2. Expectations What do you expect your students to do when you assign reading? Have you ever provided or taught strategies for reading text to your students? How did it work? What do you think your students expect to do when reading? Have you asked your students what strategies they know to help them read and comprehend?

    3. Learning Outcomes Participants will be able to … Understand Reciprocal Reading/Teaching Practice using the 4 strategies in Reciprocal Reading Review the research related to using Reciprocal Reading

    4. Reciprocal Reading/Teaching Definition: Instructional procedure designed to enhance students’ reading comprehension. This dialogue is structured by the use of four strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying and summarizing (Palinscar, David & Brown, 1989 in Hashey & Connors, 2003). Purpose: To facilitate a group effort between teacher and students, as well as among students in the task of bringing meaning to the text. Within these strategies students have the opportunity to monitor their comprehension.

    5. 4 Strategies Predicting: Using available information to make an educational guess about what might be happening next. Questioning: Maintaining an inquiry focus before, during and after reading. Clarifying: Monitoring comprehension to understand the authors meaning in the text. Also, define unfamiliar words in the text. Summarizing: Indentifying the major points and ideas from a selection.

    6. Process of Reciprocal Reading

    7. Practice with Text Skim the article. Make prediction(s) Ask questions to prompt reading Clarify unknown words Summarize

    8. Research Reveals Reciprocal Teaching/Reading is a continual process of learning, not linear. (Hashey & Connors, 2003). Reciprocal Teaching is significantly superior to control reading techniques. (Rosenshine & Meister, 1994)

    9. Research Reveals (cont.) Provides strategies the when taught explicitly and then practiced on actual reading materials provides students with deeper comprehension. The dialogue with instructor scaffolds and/or supports learning.

    10. References Hashey, J. M. & Connors, D. J. (2003). Learn form your journal: Reciprocal teaching action research. The Reading Teacher. 57(3), 224-232. Oczkus, L. D. (2003). Reciprocal teaching at work. Newark, DE: International Reading Association. Palincsar, A.S., & Brown, A.L. (1984). Reciprocal teaching of comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring activities. Cognition and Instruction, 1(2), 117–175. Rosenshine, B. & Meister, C. (1994). Reciprocal teaching: A review of the research. Review of Educational Research. 64(4), 479-530.

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