Reciprocal Reading Strategies


Reading Comprehension strategies used in every subject to improve literacy outcomes of students.

Teachers explicitly teach these reading strategies:

 

Prediction

This pre reading strategy teaches students to predict what will happen based on textual clues

 

Clarifying

This strategy teaches readers to work out the meaning of difficult words before relying on a dictionary

 

Questioning

This strategy teaches readers to develop thinking (teacher like) questions about any text read

 

Summarising

This strategy teaches readers to summarise short chunks of texts to assist understanding of text read