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Professional Development to Practice

Reciprocal Teaching Benefit

“Reciprocal teaching (RT) is an instructional procedure
developed by Palincsar and Brown (1984) to improve
students’ text comprehension skills through scaffolded
instruction of four comprehension-fostering and
comprehension-monitoring strategies (Palincsar & Brown,
1984; Palincsar, David, & Brown, 1989; Rosenshine &
Meister, 1994), that is, (a) generating one’s own questions,
(b) summarizing parts of the text, (c) clarifying word
meanings and confusing text passages, and (d) predicting
what might come next in the text.”
Spörer, N., Brunstein, J. C., & Kieschke, U. (2009)