Instructional Strategy Tool Box

Reciprocal Teaching

Reciprocal Teaching is a strategy that engages students in various aspects of reading and comprehension and can be used in any content.  Students should first be taught each step independently before being expected to do all of them together.  In reciprocal teaching, students work on summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting.  Hattie cites reciprocal teaching as a high-yield strategy with an impact size of .74

Collaborative Structures 

• Carousel  Brainstorming: Used to elicit background knowledge, to build background knowledge, to review recently studied information, or to gather opinions. Allows students to build on one anothers ideas in a very structured manner.
  
• Fishbowl: Used as a structure for modeling a process and for giving groups of students the opportunity to have structured talk while others have structured listening.
• Give One/Get One: Interactive method for reviewing content, eliciting background knowledge, or processing newly taught information.
• Notechecking Pairs: Used to foster the 10/2 instructional model (10 minutes of “input”; 2 minutes of “processing”) and to check for comprehension.

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