## ***Practice 1 - Reciprocal Teaching*** Reciprocal Teaching is a structured discussion strategy where students take turns leading peers through four comprehension strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. It builds metacognitive awareness and collaborative sense-making simultaneously. |Pros|Cons| |---|---| |Builds all four major comprehension strategies at once.|Requires significant scaffolding before students can lead independently.| |Develops metacognitive habits and student ownership of reading.|Students may focus on the procedure rather than genuine meaning-making.| |Strong research base; highly interactive and collaborative.|Complex to manage in larger groups without careful monitoring.| **** ## ***Practice 2 - Graphic Organizers*** Graphic organizers visually represent text structure and relationships — story maps for narrative, cause-and-effect chains for expository, Venn diagrams for compare/contrast. They scaffold comprehension by externalizing the organizational structure of a text before, during, or after reading. |Pros|Cons| |---|---| |Visual scaffolding supports diverse and struggling learners.|Can become formulaic and mechanical if overused.| |Reduces cognitive load by organizing information spatially.|Students may fill in organizers without genuine comprehension.| |Widely applicable across genres, grade levels, and content areas.|Not all text structures map cleanly to standard organizer formats.| ****