Reciprocal Teaching at Work

Do you find that students struggle to summarise or identify the main points in what they read? What proven strategies can teachers use to improve their students' reading comprehension?

Use this innovative teaching model to help your students construct meaning from text by integrating four reading comprehension strategies that effective readers use: predicting, questioning, clarifying and summarising. Reciprocal teaching is a scaffolded discussion technique with relevance in whole-class sessions, guided reading groups and literature circles.

In Reciprocal Teaching at Work, you’ll find an array of tools for using reciprocal teaching:

• Practical lessons
• Reproducible forms
• Suggested resources
• Student assessment options
• Intervention ideas for struggling readers.