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Group Answers To: Why Does Reciprocal Teaching Improve Students' Understanding
November 19, 1998
Click to see the group's answer sheets that they filled out in response to this prompt:
Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 5
Group:___________ Groups are assigned. Find the other students in your group.
Names of group members:________________________________________________________
Each of you has developed initial answers to the questions. Now, discuss these in your group and develop a single group explanation for each question.
1. Define understanding.
2. Explain why Reciprocal Teaching improves students' understanding. Build your answer on the concepts of understanding, learning and thinking we have examined in this unit. Your explanation should connect each of the four Reciprocal Teaching skills—questioning, clarifying, summarizing and predicting—to understanding. Begin by reviewing the concept of understanding and then explain how each skill and the overall method affect understanding.
Elect someone to record the group's answer and hand it in at the end of class. Write your group's answers on newsprint and be ready as a group to explain your answers to the class.
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