 The staff reading survey showed that 41 % of teachers have a 4 or 5 out of 5 understanding of reciprocal teaching strategies. (22 responses)  30 % of teachers were looking for more help or more information on any one of the 4 strategies.

 Used in student directed groups of 4 to “jointly understand a piece of text” (Fisher & Frey 10)  The text is broken into smaller chunks for use in discussion groups.  Predicting, Questioning, Clarifying, Summarizing (in any order!)

 Questioning  Asking literal and thinking questions of the text

 Predicting  What will be discussed next, based on prior knowledge

 Clarifying  Understanding through discussion of how a confusing point or word might be cleared up

 Summarizing  Main ideas of the passage

Method 1 (Recommended for Geo/AC)  Read together.  Group together and make group work clear. Divide text into sections. Each section:  What’s that about? (Question)  What don’t you understand? (Clarify)  What is our summary main idea? (Summarize)  What’s going to happen next here? (Predict) Read and RT for next section.

Method 2 (Recommended for Math)  Share or review process.  Divide students into groups.  In groups have students analyze problems.  Predict: What’s the answer?  Question: What are the steps?  Summary: What is the correct answer?  Clarify: How do you know this answer is right?

Method 3: (Recommended for English)  Divide text.  Divide students.  Create RT worksheet.  Predict. Read.  Stop. Question. Read.  Stop. Clarify. Read.  Finish. Clarify, Question, Summarize.  Discuss.

 English 7 and 8  What have we worked on so far?  Where do we need to go? PredictionWonder Questions Clarify PictureClarify Vocabulary Quiz QuestionsThinking Questions Summary

 How we did this last year…  How people wanted this to look this year…  How we will do things this year… Predicting by Nov.Question by Apr. Summarize by Feb.Clarify by June

 Scaffolding (Nov.)  Think alouds (Feb.)  Metacognition (Apr.)  Cooperative Learning (June) See handout with this title.

 Previewing you text.  See handout: Textbook Features.  Student Directed Questions are key.

 6 most common text structures are listed on page 37.  This is for all areas!  This will also be on the MCAIII Reading (2013).  These are embedded into the new standards.

 Only sharing and discussing these 2. K.I.S.S  Predicting Non-fiction handout.  THIEVES handouts.

 We do this everyday…  As teachers…  As students…

 Introduce this specific RT component (choose your tool).  Model the strategy by talking out how you would do it.  Provide support and guide practice.  Provide Independent practice.  Wrap up the idea as a whole class.

 Using the text given to you at the table, choose one of the predicting tools you have and go through the process together.  This may seem silly but hands on experience always makes you more comfortable with a new or different idea.