Internet+Reciprocal+Teaching

Internet reciprocal teaching is an adaptation of reciprocal teaching (Palinscar & Brown, 1984), a widely used approach to teaching strategic comprehension of texts. Reciprocal teaching revolves around four global comprehension strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.

The teacher explains these strategies to small groups using a shared text, first modeling their use, and then asking students to lead the groups. Internet reciprocal teaching builds on the same principles; however, the teacher first instructs students in a whole-class setting with each person constructing his or her own text while building the online reading comprehension strategies of questioning, locating, evaluating, synthesizing, and communicating.

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Reciprocal teaching and Internet reciprocal teaching share core values. The gradual release of responsibility to students is central to both approaches. In Internet reciprocal teaching, there are three specific phases, discussed below. When the majority of students demonstrate proficiency with the skills taught in Phase 1, instruction moves into Phase 2, and finally into Phase 3. Group discussion and sharing of strategies are also integral to both approaches.

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W. Ian O'Byrne, page created on January 7, 2013

=Webliography=

Protocol for Internet Reciprocal Teaching, from the NLRT @ UConn

Navigating the C's of Change, from Ed Leadership

Strategies for IRT and Critically Evaluating Websites

Differences Between Reciprocal Teaching and Internet Reciprocal Teaching

IRT Overview from MNLI12 wiki