Middle School-Social Studies

Follow-up Activities

If you suddenly became homeless, what single space (room or area) or object in your home would you miss the most? Describe it so that others can picture it in their minds.

• Let students make their own strategy cards and color them.

• Put students into groups of four to six. Make posters of reciprocal teaching strategies (predicting, teacher-like questions, clarifying questions, and summarizing) from construction paper, glue, markers, scissors and put them around the room.

• Choose passages for students to work on in groups of four. Students will take turns being the teacher and work with a reciprocal teaching group work handout modeling the strategy until they are proficient with it.

• After students can use the strategies in groups, have them try reading a passage silently, using the Reciprocal Teaching strategy.

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, pp. 3-5.

Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac McGee.