Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal teaching is a strategy that teachers can use when focusing on material that uses the four comprehension activities: predicting, summarizing, generating questions, and comprehension.
How is reciprocal teaching done?  Teachers need to find text selections that demonstrate the 4 comprehension activities.  Then have your class generate appropriate questions followed by making predictions about each selection.  Students will then locate summarizing sentences and develop summaries to describe each selection.

There are 10 steps involved in this strategy, simply click on each step below to see how it is done.
 

Step 1:
Activate prior knowledge, predictions, tell why reasoning is important		 Step 2:
Think aloud to model the reasoning process that should be used		 Step 3:
Think aloud how to use the reasoning process to repair comprehension		 Step 4:
Check to see how students are interpreting the information they are given		 Step 5:
Review the title and the pictures with students and ask for student predictions
Step 6:
Read aloud a small portion on the text selection with students or individually		 Step 7:
Ask questions about content, invite students to share answers and questions during reading		 Step 8:
Summarize what was read by identifying the gist of selection and how to 
summarize		 Step 9:
Check on the reasoning process to see if it worked in helping figure difficult terms		 Step 10:
Ask students to make predictions about the selection by reading subheadings

For a complete lesson planning on Invertebrates using reciprocal teaching click here.


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