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Reciprocal Teaching. By: Mindy Carroll. Objectives. Definition Theory Successful With What it provides How knowledge is gained. Definition. An approach to teaching reading and listening comprehension whereby students take turns asking teacher like questions of their classmates. Theory .
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Reciprocal Teaching By: Mindy Carroll
Objectives • Definition • Theory • Successful With • What it provides • How knowledge is gained
Definition • An approach to teaching reading and listening comprehension whereby students take turns asking teacher like questions of their classmates.
Theory • Vygotsky’s theory of Cognitive development • Students eventually internalize the processes that they first use in their discussions with others
Successful With • Students with learning disabilities • Word decoding to text comprehension • 1st graders thru College Age Students • Effective reading and listening comprehension skills
Provides • A mechanism through which both the teacher and students can model effective reading and learning strategies • Effective cognitive processes by first having students practice them aloud in group sessions
Allows knowledge to be gained by: • Summarizing • Questioning • Clarifying • Predicting
Example • Six seventh-grade students with a history of poor reading comprehension participated in twenty reciprocal teaching sessions, each lasting about thirty minutes. Despite this relatively short intervention, students showed remarkable improvement in their reading comprehension skills. They became increasingly able to process reading material independently of their classroom teacher.
References • Engaging the Text: Reciprocal Teaching and Questioning Strategies in a Scaffolded Learning Environment http://www.cast.org/ud/index.cfm?I=166 • The Text Book