Materials

Reciprocal Teaching Group Work

	Predicting. Write one or two sentences that predict what the rest of the passage or poem will be about. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________
	Picture in Your Mind. After you have finished reading, draw a picture of what this passage or poem makes you see in your imagination. You may draw it on this paper or on another sheet of paper that the teacher will give you.
	Clarifying. Write down any words, phrases, or ideas that you do not understand. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________
	Teacher-like Questions. Pretend that you are the teacher and you are going to give a test about what you have just read. Using the back of your bookmark as a guide, write three "teacher-like" questions about the passage. 1. ____________________________________? 2. ____________________________________? 3. ____________________________________?
	Summarizing. Complete this summary sentence about the passage that you read. The passage about __________________ begins with __________________, discusses (or develops) the idea that __________________, and ends with _______________________.