Volume 1, Issue 13 – Engaging Students in Reciprocal Teaching

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly.  Today we’ll be discussing the concept of engaging students in reciprocal teaching.

Many teachers use some variation of reciprocal teaching – having students predict, clarify, question and summarize – when teaching reading comprehension, but the strategies to guide students to use these skills are often haphazard. In an article for The Reading Teacher, University of Southern Mississippi instructor Kelley Stricklin goes over best practices for reciprocal teaching.

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