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Reciprocal Teaching Lesson Plan: Inferences, Summarizing, and Monitoring For Comprehension
Reciprocal Teaching Lesson Plan: Inferences, Summarizing, and Monitoring For Comprehension
Iowa Core Standard: Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections, determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making
inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for comprehension.
I can learning target (related to your goal for the reader and the Iowa Core): I can make and check predictions based on evidence from the text.
Text complexity: This text requires the reader to integrate information from text features (photographs and captions) to fully comprehend the text.
Assessment: Did the reader identify text-based evidence to support the prediction (right there in the text).
● This is our goal today:.I can make and check predictions based on
evidence from the text.
Use a My Turn,
Our Turn, and
Your Turn
procedure ● Prior knowledge (review and connect): We have been reading
informational texts and we have learned that readers get their brains
ready for reading by thinking about what they already know about
the topic. The title of this book is Life Cycles. Think about these
Preview/text feature two questions: What is a life cycle? What are the stages of a frog
walk life cycle? [Record responses.]
Record predictions ● Preview: My turn first. I am going to preview the text by looking
at the title, table of contents, and index. I do this before reading to
help me make a prediction (open the book and look at the TOC).
Now it’s our turn together. The author uses the TOC to tell
Remind to think readers what information is in the book and how that information is
about questions to
organized. I notice [mention some titles]. What do you notice? I
ask and to look for
a word(s) to clarify
also notice the title on the facing page. Now it’s your turn. What
during reading else do you notice?
Turn to the back of the book and find the index [p. 16]. The author
uses an index to tell readers where to find specific information in
the text. Looking at the index I notice a variety of development
stages listed [mention lifecycles]. Now it’s your turn. What do you
notice?
Let’s read to find out [base the purpose on the reader’s prediction].
After reading
discussion
● Clarify: Reader’s pay attention to words that are hard to read or
ideas they don’t understand. When we read we ask: Which word or
idea was hard for me? We can do this after reading to help us better
Use a My Turn, understand the text. Watch me as I clarify the meaning of a word.
Our Turn, and
Your Turn
procedure
Thinking aloud: (A) My turn first. I read the words development
and life span. I need to clarify what that means. I know that
development means process of changing. But I am not sure what life
Strategy use
span means. I will read around the word to see if that helps me. The
highlighted
text says average before the word. That doesn’t help yet. I will keep
reading after the word life span.. The text says two to three years. I
think that helps me. Life span might mean something like average
Verify predictions
length of time or that it is how long a human or animal lives..
Now it's our turn together. Let’s find one word to clarify. [Provide
Reader talks about
support.]
how he/she clarified
a word (or an idea)
Reflect on the
helpfulness of the
strategies Watch me as I ask a question.
Thinking aloud: (A) My turn first. I am going to use the title and
turn it into a why question: Why do frogs go through life cycles? I
think one reason frogs go through life cycles is because they have to
live and die to reproduce. The answer is right here in the text.
It’s our turn together. Let’s find another answer to the question,
Why do frogs go through life cycles? [Provide support to the reader:
to mate. Also right there in the text.]
You can help me. It’s our turn together. We learned that living
things go through life cycles to mate, reproduce, and die.
● Confirm prediction: Let’s check our predictions. We do this after
reading to help us think more about the text and our search for
information. We use evidence from the text to check our
predictions.
Let’s check our goal: I can make and check predictions based on
evidence from the text.
Vocabulary development
Teaching Tier 2:
point(s)
- Adult
- Complex
- Different
- Period
Text categories
- Produce
and questions
- Variety
Tier 3:
- Cycle
- Development
- Fertilizes
- Life Span
- Mature
- Metamorphosis