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Instructional Techniques |
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Reading Strategies is a label commonly used to refer to both the strategies used by students to get meaning from text and the strategies used by teachers to structure and deliver instruction. Merry Bee uses the label instructional techniques for those instructional strategies the teacher uses and reading strategies for those strategies the student uses in reading. | |||||||
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Reciprocal Teaching |
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BackgroundDeveloped by Annemarie Palincsar, 1984 |
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ExplanationReciprocal teaching develops the ability of students to use four comprehension strategies - predicting, summarizing, clarifying, and questioning. The four strategies can be taught in any order. The teacher begins with direct explicit instruction, uses modeling and demonstration, and provides guided practice. The activity is reciprocal in that students take the lead as they become more proficient in using these strategies. Thus the teacher role is flexible, shifting between instructor and facilitator as leadership shifts back and forth between the teacher and the student. It is important that the text used for reciprocal teaching be decodable by the student. It is desirable to apply the reciprocal teaching technique with a variety of genre. |
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Reciprocal teaching is related to discussions of learning dialogues, expert scaffolding, and collaborative learning in the professional literature. This technique is particularly pertinent to developing comprehension in reading, but the student should internalize the use of other comprehension strategies as well. |
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Two text series that use reciprocal teaching are: |
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