1. What Is Reciprocal Teaching?
The creation of Palinscar and Brown, Reciprocal
Teaching is in some ways a compilation of four
comprehension strategies:
• summarizing
• questioning
• clarifying
• predicting
3. Before you can expect reciprocal teaching to be used
successfully by your students…..
Model the four foundations
Model how to use four strategies
Practice the four strategies
4. Your job
• As you watch the early elementary whole-
class session, look for and record examples of
the following:
The Four Strategies:
• Predicting
• Questioning
• Clarifying
• Summarizing
7. Donna Dyer of the North West Regional Education
Service Agency in North Carolina recommends. Here's
one way she suggests you use reciprocal teaching:
1. Put students in groups of four.
2. Distribute one notecard to each member of
the group identifying each person's unique role.
summarizer
questioner
clarifier
predictor
8. 3. All students read and take notes.
Have students read a few paragraphs of the
assigned text selection. Encourage them to use
note-taking strategies such as selective
underlining or sticky-notes to help them better
prepare for their role in the discussion.
9. 4. Stopping point
At the given stopping point, the Summarizer will
highlight the key ideas up to this point in the
reading.
10. 5. Questioner
Questioner will then pose questions about the
selection:
• The unclear parts
• puzzling information
• connections to other concepts already learned
• motivations of the agents or actors or characters
• etc.
11. 6. Clarifier
• addresses confusing parts and attempts to
answer the questions that were just posed.
12. 7. The Predictor
offers guesses about what the author will tell
the group next or, if it's a literary selection, the
predictor might suggest what the next events in
the story will be.
13. 8. Switch Roles
Switch one person to the right, and the next
selection is read. Students repeat the process
using their new roles. This continues until the
entire selection is read.
14. As you watch the fifth grade lesson, look for and record
examples of the
following:
The Four Strategies: The Four Foundations:
• Predicting • Think-Alouds
• Questioning • Cooperative Learning
• Clarifying • Scaffolding
• Summarizing • Metacognition
