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Pre / During / Post Reading Strategy
RECIPROCAL TEACHING

Overview: The procedure involves showing students how to do learning strategies and then having them take turns teaching these strategies.

Steps:

1. Begin with a section of your text which contains a series of well-written paragraphs.

2. Tell students that you are going to demonstrate four different strategies: summarizing, questioning, noting difficult parts, and predicting.

3. Read through the first paragraph. In two sentences, summarize the core of the material. Talk about how you arrived at the summary.

4. Ask a question about the paragraph’s content. Discuss what you did to come up with the question.

5. Note any vocabulary or unclear statements in the paragraph and comment about what you think they mean. Ask students if there are any other questions that need clearing up.

6. Predict what you think will be learned in the next several paragraphs.

7. After modeling several times, ask students to be the teacher and do the four strategies. Provide feedback.

(Palincsar and Brown, 1986)

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