1. Jennifer Evans
Assistant Director ELA
St. Clair County RESA
Evans.jennifer@sccresa.org
http://www.protopage.com/evans.jennifer#Untitled/Home

2. Agenda
Why Use
Reciprocal
Teaching?
What is
Reciprocal
Teaching?
How Do You Do
Reciprocal
Teaching?
Reciprocal
Teaching PD Plan
Planning Lessons
With Reciprocal
Teaching
evans.jennifer@sccresa.org

4. Predict
Question
Summarize
Clarify

5. Why use Reciprocal Teaching?
Reciprocal teaching enables students to
construct meaning and to self-monitor as they
read.
Reciprocal teaching is in the top 10 most
effective strategies.
(Hattie 2012)
Metacognition is our goal, and reciprocal teaching
does this.
After 15–20 days of instruction, Palincsar and Brown
(1984) saw students go from scoring 30% to scoring
80% on a reading comprehension assessment.
• After 76 lessons, students improved by one to two
reading levels (Cooper,Boschken, McWilliams, &
Pistochini, 2000).

7. Too Much Teacher Talk?
• 93.31% (1074 discussions) were
completely monologic (teacher-
centered) in nature
• Of the 6.69% (77) that included
“dialogic episodes” (moments when
students directed the conversation),
those episodes lasted for an average
of 15 seconds (Nystrand et al., 2003)
In one
study of
1,151
classroom
discussions:

8. “Students in classrooms with high
academic demands and more
emphasis on discussion-based
approaches show higher end-of-
year literacy performance.”
(Applebee et al., 2003, p. 717)

9. Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching is a dialogue between teacher and students using four strategies:
Generating
Questions
Directs reader to
specific information
Forces reader to
reprocess and
manipulate text
Summarizing
Helps reader focus on
pertinent information
Focuses active
involvement of reader
Clarifying
Directs reader to look
for confusing parts of
the text
Helps reader decide
which “fix up”
strategy to use
Predicting
Forces reader to read
with anticipation
Causes reader to look
for clues indicating
where the author is
headed

10. The Four Foundations:
Think-Alouds
Cooperative
Learning
Scaffolding Metacognition

11. Modeling How to Guide The Discussion
• http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/reci
procal_teaching (2 min. intro)

12. Upper Elementary Example
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oXskcnb
4RA (7 min. upper el part 1)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gSIcSy
ypk (7 min. upper el part 2)

13. Lower Elementary Example
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4mSV
XDCjE (7 min. primary with Fab 4)

15. Example Lesson Plan

20. Blooms Flipbook

22. Protocol: Give One, Get One
What
• Inclusion activity
• Opener (for day,
class period, etc.)
• Practice working
with each one of
the four parts of
reciprocal
teaching
Why
• Builds community
• Gets everyone’s
voice in the room
• Sets the norm for
respectful
listening
• Engagement /
Accountability
• Formative
Assessment
How
• On the Give One,
Get One sheet,
write down
answers to the
question below.
Be prepared to
share your ideas.
Discuss with your group how you could use the
Bloom’s flipbook in your classroom.

24. No one
best way to
begin using
reciprocal
teaching in
your
classroom
exists. The
key is to
regularly
model and
practice
the
strategies
with your
students.
Some
teachers
begin with
whole-class
sessions,
while
others
prefer a
guided
reading
setting.
Some
intermediate
-grade
teachers use
reciprocal
teaching in a
guided
reading
setting with
struggling
readers and
with the
whole class
during
content area
reading.
Primary-
grade
teachers
may use
reciprocal
teaching
with Big
Books and
in guided
reading
groups.
Later, when
students in
grades 2–8
know how
the
strategies
work
together,
teachers
can
introduce
literature
circles.
What is the best way to get started with reciprocal
teaching?

26. How will I implement Reciprocal Teaching?
Take a moment to read
through the lesson
strategy instruction
handouts.
Think about how you could implement or deepen your
teaching of Reciprocal Teaching into your instruction on a
regular basis.
How you will monitor your students’ progression?
Share your plan with a
partner.

27. Review
Define each of the
four reciprocal
teaching strategies.
What are the
four foundations
that underpin
reciprocal
teaching
lessons?
Why is reciprocal
teaching
important?

28. • Activate Prior Knowledge
– Review the reciprocal teaching strategies.
– Review prior knowledge of content.
• Before Reading
– Predict.
– Question or wonder.
• During Reading
– Have students look for words and/or ideas to clarify.
– Coach individual students in any of the four reciprocal teaching strategies.
• After Reading
– Clarify—discuss.
– Return to original predictions.
– Question—ask quiz or teacher questions.
– Summarize.
Describe what the teacher does during each part of
the Guided Reading lesson.

30. Reciprocal Teaching PD Plan
Day 1: Introduce the
Reciprocal Teaching
Strategy (Today)
Day 2: Model Lesson
using Reciprocal
Teaching / Debrief
(January 26, 2015)
Day 3: Observe / Support
you teaching a lesson
using the Reciprocal
Teaching Strategy
(February 23, 2015)

31. Questions?