Directions: Gather 3 facts, 2 quotes, and ask 1 question you have. Use print or digital copy available.
Share your 3-2-1 notes from the resource you viewed or read with your team
Get into small groups of five or six people each. Each person assumes one of the following roles:
Lead Speaker - Introduces the Fab Four group, and explains and discusses (like a news broadcaster) what we will be seeing to the Videographer
Predictor - Predicts what will happen in the reading
Questioner - Asks questions about the reading
Clarifier - Clarifies answers and vocabulary
Summarizer - Summarizes the reading
Videographer - Uses the camera app on a smartphone to capture team members modeling the Reciprocal Teaching strategy.
In the early years, students need time to read, not to do skills drills or reading “activities.” Schmoker points out that in the most effective reading classrooms, students “never, ever engage in cut, color, or paste activities that now occupy the majority of early-grade reading programs—more than 100 instructional hours per year.”
Students should be exposed to broad, wide reading of both fiction and nonfiction: “We learn to read well by reading a lot for meaning: to analyze or support arguments, to arrive at our own opinions as we make inferences or attempt to solve problems.”
Students should be involved in discussions at least three times per week, with established criteria to guide them
It consistently produces results of .74 growth per year. This effect size, measured by John Hattie’s meta-analyses in Visible Learning, accounts for almost two years growth in one year.
Across type of test (standardized, etc.), regardless of teacher, grade level, Reciprocal Teaching proved effective for all ages and situations.
*Note: COGNITION AND INSTRUCTION, 1984, I (2) 117-175 Copyright o 1984, LawrenceErlbaum Associates, Inc.