Reciprocal Reading - RTLB Support 2020
Reciprocal Reading through RTLB What have I learnt? Reciprocal reading is a technique used to improve students comprehension and also their involvement. This reading comprehension strategy encourages students to develop their reading skills when it comes to being an effective reader. Naturally and automatically, effective readers predict, clarify, question and summarise what they are reading. However, students need to be taught how to do that and the more the do it, the more natural it will become. Reciprocal reading has also had a massive impact on student engagement in only the short time frame we have been doing it in class. I'm looking forward to it continuing and seeing the students become effective and enthusiastic readers. Reciprocal Reading consists of four strategies: 1. Predicting 2. Clarifying 3. Questioning 4. Summarising The clarifiers can use different resources, such as, dictionaries, atlas's, Google and thesauruses to define unknown words for