Reciprocal Teaching/Posse

Reciprocal Teaching has the teacher and student take turns leading a dialogue that covers a section of the text.

• Questioning. The “teacher” asks questions before, during, and after the reading.

• Summarizing. Students identify the main idea and supporting details.

• Predicting. Students make predictions about future content.

• Clarifying. The “teacher” helps students clarify difficulties with the text (e.g. unfamiliar vocabulary, unclear referent words, or      disorganization).

POSSE is a strategy that combines reciprocal teaching with semantic mapping and/or graphic organizers.

• Predict text ideas after a brief glance at the text and then activate prior knowledge by brainstorming the topic.

• Organize the predictions and prior knowledge into a semantic map and/or graphic organizer.

• Search for the structure of the text.

• Summarize the main idea(s) in another semantic map and/or graphic organizer.

• Evaluate comprehension by comparing the semantic maps, clarifying information by asking questions, and predicting what information will be in the next text section.

Reference:

Bos, Candice, and Sharon Vaughn. Reading: Fluency and Comprehension. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.