Reciprocal+Reading

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__Background__
Developed in the mid-1980's by researchers Ann Brown and Ann-Marie Palincsar. This strategy was created for struggling readers, in order to improve their comprehension abilities.

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Students either in pairs or groups work together on a set of four comprehension strategies on the same text. Students take turns acting as the "teacher" and the student. ======



**__Four Comprehension Strategies__:**

 * 1) **Questioning** - the role of the "teacher" is played by the student and he reads a passage out loud to the group. The group silently follows along. Then they create questions which focus on the main ideas.
 * 2) **Summarizing** - the content is then summarized by the "teacher."
 * 3) **Clarifying**- the group together talks about and explains any other difficult areas of understanding.
 * 4) **Predicting**- a prediction of the future content is made from the group. Following the prediction a second student is the "teacher" for another segment of text.

(Additional Techniques: confirm or reject prediction, seek clarifying, inferring, word study, connecting prior knowledge)

__Why is it important for students to design their own questions?__
Students are able to check comprehension of the material read by creating questions and summaries.

__How will it benefit students?__
Students are able to have meaning to what was read, with or without, a teacher present. Students are able to monitor their own reading and it makes each student participate. This also helps students interact with each other, especially those students who might not normally interact.