Date: August 2007 Creator: Sarasti, Israel A. Description:
Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading
comprehension instructional procedure that combines four
instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning,
and clarifying to enhance students' comprehension of text. The
procedure is a dialogue between the teacher and the students.
During reciprocal teaching instruction, the teacher and students
take turns leading the dialogue in order to enhance the
students' comprehension-monitoring skills. The research on
reciprocal teaching has included meta-analyses, group designs,
qualitative designs, and single-subject research designs. These
studies have identified gaps in the literature to include the
measurement of treatment fidelity and treatment acceptability,
as well as the psychometric properties of the instruments used
to measure daily reading comprehension growth. These gaps were
investigated in this study. The purpose of this study was to
investigate the effects of reciprocal teac