Reciprical+Teaching

= Reciprocal Teaching =

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An interactive teaching strategy that promotes both comprehension of text and comprehension monitoring through active participation in discussions of the text. The teacher and students work together to comprehend text through the use of a dialogue structured by four strategies. 1. Predicting: students are taught to make predictions about upcoming events. 2. Question generating: through teacher modeling and practice in generating main idea questions about the text, students learn to identify information that provides the substance for a good question. 3. Summarizing: The teacher guides students in integrating the information given in the text. They will be able to provide the important dates, places, people, and actions of the story. 4. Clarifying: Students' attention is given to reasons why the text may be difficult to understand.   Englert and Mariage presented a comprehension procedure that includes reciprocal teaching format as well as semantic mapping to improve students' recall of information:
 * This will give students a purpose for reading.
 * They will become more involved in the reading when given this knowledge of asking and answering questions.
 * This provides students with an opportunity to monitor their understanding of the text.
 * This teaches them to reread or ask for help to restore meaning.
 * Initially the teacher leads this dialogue and models the use of these four strategies and through practice the responsibility for initiating and maintaining the dialogue is transferred to the student. When using the strategies or thinking skills students are forced to focus on the reading material and monitor for understanding.**

POSSE

P-predict-text ideas based on background knowledge O-Organize-the predicted tetual ideas and background knowledge into a semantic map based on text structure S-Search-for the text structure in the expository passage by reading S-Summarize-the main ideas and record the information in a semantic map E-Evaluate-comprehension by comparing the semantic maps, clarify information by asking questions, and predict what information will be in the next section