Reciprocal teaching is a strategy used to help students better understand texts through interactive dialogue between the teacher and students. It involves students taking turns in designated roles such as leader, questioner, clarifier, predictor, and summarizer to guide discussion of what was read. The roles encourage students to ask and answer questions, clarify confusing parts, make and discuss predictions, and summarize the key ideas in their own words.

1. RECIPROCAL
TEACHING

2. Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal teaching is a strategy used to help
students develop a better understanding of
what is presented in any given text.
It encourages interactive dialogue or discussion
between teacher and learners and is mostly
used with pupils who have adequate reading
ability.

3. Roles
Leader
Questioner
Clarifier
Predictor
Summariser

4. Leader
• Decides who will do
each role
• Tells the group what
they will be reading
• Invites each member of
the group to do their
role
• Encourages all
members to join in with
discussions

5. Questioner
• Ask questions that
will help the group to
understand what has
been read
• Think of questions
while reading the
text

6. Summariser
• Tells the group what
they have read in
their own words
• Picks out the main
ideas

7. Clarifier
• Clarifies confusing
parts of the text to the
group
• Explains the meanings
of unknown words
• Answers questions
about the meaning of
the text
• Tells the group the
strategies they used to
work out words

8. Predictor
• Discusses the
predictions they
made before, during
and after reading the
text
• Discuss any changes
of predictions that
were made (confirm
& reject)