Builds thinking skills & accelerates reading
comprehension.
Trains students to become collaborative in their learning.
Studies show it can be effective for Maori students &
low-achieving students.
Can support learning across the curriculum – whole class or
groups.
Supports teacher by developing student autonomy.
It gives teacher time to observe students & diagnose
learning needs.
Equips students with skills
to engage in more thoughtful, co-operative & productive classroom
interactions.
High impact & effective – developing evidence-based
understanding & practice to achieve high impact results for all students in
a collaborative approach.
Phase 2
– deliberate transfer of learning & metacognition.
Deliberate
strategy – use non-fiction texts to motivate – needs to be high-interest texts.
Text can be read prior to the reciprocal reading session.
Teacher
becomes part of a group –powerful message: teacher is learning alongside with
her students., therefore everyone is participating.
Transfer
to the whanau – parents & their children doing reciprocal reading.
Groups of 6 or less: all students need to participate.
First 12 sessions: developing group processing,t each 2
strategies at 2 weeks interval,meta-workshops: teaching key strategies &
skills, inferential questioning, use of the tokotoko bookmark, during this time
teacher writing anecdotal notes
