Student Grid for Practicing Reciprocal Teaching

After some teacher modeling, reciprocal teaching (Palinscar and Brown, 1984) gives students the opportunity to take turns being the “teacher” in small groups or with a partner and guide the use of four thinking moves: summarizing, clarifying, questioning, and predicting. This tool is a one-page, reusable four-square grid that you can slide into a page protector to have students use again and again as they affix sticky notes to each square. (From Shift 2 in Shifting the Balance; 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom.)