Correct Answer - Option 3 : Evaluating
Reciprocal Teaching is a small group instructional activity in which students become the teacher and lead discussions using four strategies that good readers use to comprehend text. Students must ask questions to clear their misunderstandings.
- The goal of reciprocal teaching is to instruct students with specific strategies that they can apply to new texts.
- Reciprocal teaching is based on Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (1978) and the proleptic model of teaching (Wood, Bruner & Ross, 1976, as cited in Manning & Payne, 1996).
Four main strategies of reciprocal teaching
-
Predicting: Students can develop this skill by looking for clues to figure out what will happen next in the text.
-
Questioning: The text helps students to develop their intellectual skills and they will ask the questions.
-
Clarifying: Students make attempts to clarify concepts or vocabulary that is not understood.
-
Summarizing: Students must put that information together to concisely explain the meaning and content of the passage in their own words.
Benefits
- It helps the students to think about their own thought processes during reading.
- It teaches students to ask questions during reading and helps make the text more comprehensible.
- Students will enjoy it very much as they get the opportunity of becoming a teacher and ask questions during this process.
- Students will actively participate in this process.
Hence, we can conclude that evaluating is not a strategy used in 'reciprocal teaching'.
