The Reciprocal Teaching method in primary schools
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 21x29,7
Pages: 237 + poster
ISBN: 9788859016274
Publication date: 01/09/2018
Suitable for: Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)
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Comprehension is an essential competence needed for reading and studying texts. The Reciprocal Teaching (RT) method was created to teach pupils to reason over a text and to identify the main pieces of information it contains. Pupils, working in pairs or in small groups, learn to identify the essential contents of the text using four techniques: predicting, forecasting; questioning, coming up with questions; clarifying, explaining difficult words and concepts; and summarising, rewriting in a shorter version using other words. The book is aimed at pupils in their fourth and fifth year of primary school, who, with the teacher as a guide and each other’s help, will learn to work on different kinds of texts, automatising the skills needed for studying any subject. The book is divided into two parts: the theory, which describes how Reciprocal Teaching works and the four techniques, and the practical material, which enables teachers to set up an authentic text comprehension workshop.
It includes:
Introduction by Antonio Calvani
FIRST PART – The Reciprocal Teaching for understanding and summarizing texts
CH. 1 What is Reciprocal Teaching and how does it work?
CH. 2 The four strategies of Reciprocal Teaching
1. Predict
2. Question
3. Clarify
− Understand the meaning of new words
− Reconstruct the logical relationships between concepts and events
− Reason about the text: inferences
4. Summarize
− Reducing the number of words with the specialized techniques
− Synthesizing using a global approach
− Summary formats
CH. 3 How to teach the Reciprocal Teaching method
• An example of “modelling”
• A more complex example
• A work sheet
CH. 4 Organizing class work
• Correcting a summary
• Evaluating a summary
• Frequently asked questions
SECOND PART – Work materials for the workshops on the texts
Guided work texts (3 worksheets)
Level one texts (42 worksheets)
Level two texts (34 worksheets)
Entrance test (4 worksheets)
Final test (4 worksheets)
APPENDIX
Bookmark with the four Reciprocal Teaching strategies
Bookmark with strategies for understanding difficult words and ideas
Playing cards of the four strategies