Reciprocal Reading Professional Development

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