Product Description: Reciprocal teaching is a technique based on teacher modeling, student participation, and four strategies that good readers use to comprehend text: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. Although reciprocal teaching originally was designed for use with struggling readers, author Lori D. Oczkus offers innovative lessons aimed at improving the reading comprehension of all students. Reciprocal Teaching at Work: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension provides a practical classroom resource on reciprocal teaching that readers will find accessible and engaging. Chapter 1 describes each reciprocal teaching strategy in detail and suggests ways that teachers can overcome both difficulties that they may encounter when using this teaching technique and common problems that students have with using the strategies. Chapters 2–4 explain how to use reciprocal teaching in whole-class sessions, guided reading groups, and literature circles, respectively. Each of these chapters offers scaffolded lessons, minilessons, and reproducible forms for classroom teachers to use with students, and reflection questions for staff development. The appendixes provide a list of what teachers should observe when students work with the reciprocal teaching strategies, a student self-assessment for strategy usage, and instructions for conducting informal assessment interviews with students. This book will benefit classroom teachers and reading specialists working primarily with students in grades 2–6, and teacher educators, school administrators, and staff developers seeking successful reading comprehension strategies to share with teachers.
Reciprocal Teaching This book is great as a first intro to Reciprocal Teaching. These are great research based strategies you can use to improve students' comprehension. I used this book with my whole 2nd grade class and then formed book clubs with my higher readers. They loved it!
Reciprocal Teaching at Work As an elementary principal the book Reciprocal Teaching at Work has helped my staff incorporate the method of reciprocal teaching in the classroom. The textbook is written in a way that is easy for teachers to understand and apply to their everyday reading program. This is an excellent resource.
Experienced teacher gives this product high marks! My teaching has been refined and my students are working towards independence as great readers. It's easy to apply to curriculum already in place!
Reciprocal Teaching This book is an excellent tool for teaching the four important reading stategies of predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. The third graders that I have used it with love the characters. They are using the strategies more because of the characters that were used to introduce them. The fifth graders in our school have taken over the teaching of the strategies using reciprocal teaching. It is an excellent tool to teach reading either whole class or small group.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Tony's Online Tips
Trevor
