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Reciprocal Questioning
A tried and true instructional activity for helping students develop new habits of interacting with their peers is ReQuest, or Reciprocal Questioning. This strategy reinforces comprehension, questioning, and reading critically.
On Day 6, Dr. Fisher explains this strategy in great depth and invites you to try it out with your students.
CLASSROOM TASK: RECIPROCAL QUESTIONING
Select a piece of text and identify 3 stopping points. Explain the ReQuest strategy to your students. Have your students engage in the reciprocal questioning activity. The questions will most likely be literal. After practicing this activity a few times, introduce inferential questions to your students.
Jot down your reflections about this experience in your Professional Reflection Journal or elsewhere.
This journal can be used to reflect on what you have learned as you develop strategies for engaging your students in collaborative conversations.
Students have partner conversations in which one student asks the question and another student responds to the question. Over multiple days they take turns. One student asking questions, and the other student responding. In addition to learning how to talk to each other, they learn how to read text through a questioning protocol.
