Reciprocal Reading We will be using 4 reading

Reciprocal Reading

We will be using 4 reading strategies: • • Predicting Clarifying Questioning Summarising

Predict • Use what you have read or clues from the illustrations to help figure out what the text will be about or what will happen next. • You can change your predictions as you read on! • • I think …. I’ll bet… I wonder if … I imagine … I suppose … I predict … I think this text will be about…

Clarify • You must clarify whenever you: • Read a word you don’t understand. • Find that sentence doesn’t make sense. • Are confused by what you have read. • Think about what you did to help you understand.

Question • Ask and answer questions which will help you to understand what has been read. • If you ask a question you must know the answer or be willing to learn from others. • • Who… What… When… Where… Why… How… What if…

Summarise • Tell the group/write down what you have read in your own words. • Only tell the important information, not the little details. • Keep it as short as you can! • It is a reminder of what has been read so far. • The most important ideas are … • The main idea is … • This part was about … • First, …. . Next, …. Then, … • This story takes place in … • The main characters are … • The problem of the story is …

These four strategies will help you to become an excellent reader!

Examples of how it works: Top Juniors https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=8 o. Xskcnb 4 RA Introduction to the Fab Four https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Mwnyyj_5 Cxg Infants https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Jm 4 m. SVXDCj. E

Feedback from year 4 • I think it has very valid learning skills and it is good to be able to use the skills that it gives you. • I really like it because then when I’m reading my book at home I feel like I really understand what I’m reading. • I like it how it usually makes me learn new words because I don’t know a lot of the words in the text. • I think it’s really good because it’s also good for a cool down and prepares you for English lessons. It incorporates a lot of skills we need in our hot tasks. • It helps to build up speed of reading.