Pulling it All Together

Our intervention team, administration and teachers have had lots of inquiries about Reciprocal Teaching this summer. At RH this year we saw a very positive difference in our student's comprehension skills when they became familiar with this strategy.
First of all, I want to point out that this is not "one more thing" or "something NEW". This comprehension strategy is found right in your IFD in the TEKS. Reciprocal Teaching just suggests that you put the standards together to get students to use multiple comprehension skills all at once. So, really it's just putting all of the Fig 19 standards together (just like so often the spaghetti of ELA brings many standards into play at once). Basically, Reciprocal Teaching is just a fancy name for doing just that. In fact, when looking at the processes, Ervin Knezek promotes this in ALL subject areas: USE AS MANY PROCESS STANDARDS AS POSSIBLE.

We have gathered and posted lots of resources about "The Fantastic/Fab 4" (Reciprocal Teaching), so I thought it may be helpful to put all of the resources together for campuses/teachers that are interested in learning more.

To save you some time from searching the archives of the blog, here are links to the previous posts on this topic:

http://www.rhscramble.blogspot.com/2013/08/reciprocal-teaching-after-looking-at.html

http://www.rhscramble.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-fab-four.html

http://www.rhscramble.blogspot.com/2013/11/reciprocal-teaching-continued.html

This is a video of a book club conducted by our AMAZING interventionist, Leslie Stoker, with a group of 4th graders. This gives you a good picture of what level of conversation students familiar with this strategy are able to have. Thanks Leslie for allowing us to share and learn from you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k23R1wzCY4