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Curriculum Design & Lesson Planning

Reciprocal Teaching: New Insights and Tools for Boosting Reading Comprehension

8 years ago
Curriculum Design & Lesson Planning

Boost Comprehension NOW with ‘Fab Four’ Evidence-Based Reading Lessons!

9 months ago

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Many students decode what they read, but they don't comprehend it. Reciprocal teaching strategies (Palincsar & Brown, 1984)—also known as the Fabulous Four (Oczkus, 2010) predict, question, clarify, and summarize work as a powerful package to begin to yield results in reading comprehension in the first 15 days. Many students accelerate one grade level in reading in just three to six months and up to .74 in one year (Hattie, 2008).

About the presenter

Lori Oczkus is a literacy coach, bestselling author, and popular international speaker. Tens of thousands of teachers have attended her motivating, fast-paced workshops and read her practical, research-based professional books and articles.

Oczkus has experience working as a bilingual elementary teacher, intervention specialist, staff developer, and literacy coach. She works with students in classrooms every week and knows the challenges that teachers face in teaching students to read. She has been inducted into the California Reading Association Hall of Fame for her many contributions to the field of reading, and is the author of seven bestselling professional books.

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Curriculum Design & Lesson Planning
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