Reciprocal Reading

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Reciprocal Reading
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You will learn

• What the 4 roles in Reciprocal Reading are.
• About the 4 strategies covered in Reciprocal
  Reading.
• How to become a very good reader!!!

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The Roles!

• A questioner
• A clarifier
• A predictor
• A summariser

• There is also a group leader or
• BIG BOSS

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The Big Boss

• Decides who will do each job.
• Tells the group what to read.
• Invites each worker to do their job after
  reading each chunk.
• Makes sure everyone is joining in.

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The Questioner

• Ask questions which will help the group to
  understand what has been read.
• Thinks of questions to ask as they read the text.

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• How
• What if

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The Summariser

• Tell the group what you have read in your own
  words.
• Only tell the important information, not the
  little details.
• Keep it as short as you can!
• It is a reminder of what has been read so far.

• The most important ideas are
• The main idea is
• This part was about
• First, .. Next, . Then,
• This story takes place in
• The main characters are
• The problem of the story is

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The Predictor

• Use what you have read or clues from the
  illustrations to help figure out what the group
  will learn or what will happen in the text.
• You can change your predictions as you read on!

• I think .
• Ill bet
• I wonder if
• I imagine
• I suppose
• I predict
• I think this text will be about

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The Clarifier

• You must clarify whenever you
• Read a word you dont understand.
• Find that sentence doesnt make sense.
• Are confused by what you have read.

• Think about what you did to help you understand.
• Explain that to the group and tell them what you
  think it means.

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Things the clarifier can do

• Stop and think about what you have already read.
• Reread.
• Adjust your reading rate slow down or speed up.
• Try and connect the text to something you read in
  another book, what you know about the world, or
  to something you have experienced.
• Make visual images.
• Reflect on what you have read.
• Use print conventions (key words, bold print,
  italicized words, and punctuation).

• Look for little words inside big words.
• Look for base or root words, prefixes, or
  suffixes.
• Look for a comma following an unfamiliar word.
  Sometimes the author will give the definition
  after the comma.
• Keep reading to see if you can get a sense of the
  definition.

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You will be using 4 reading strategies

• Predicting
• Questioning
• Clarifying
• Summarising

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These four strategies will help you to become an
excellent reader!

• Just like him!