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Reciprocal
Teaching: Aunty Misery
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Subject
Area
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Language Arts - 5th
Grade
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FCAT
Connection
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Materials
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The following materials are
need for this lesson
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Procedures
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- Ask the students to take
out a sheet of paper and write three things that they
think that "good" readers do.
- Ask students to tell one
thing that they have written on their papers.
- Tell the students that
most of what they have said can be categorized into one
of the strategies that are used in Reciprocal
Teaching:
Predicting,
Clarifying, Questioning,
Summarizing, and
Visualizing.
- Pass out the Reciprocal
Teaching bookmarks.
- Define each of the five
parts. Explain that they may come in any order but will
be done in order for this lesson.
- Pass out highlighters.
Students will use them to highlight parts that need
clarification or parts that may be good "teacher-like"
questions.
- Write the phrase "Aunty
Misery" on the board. Give students one minute to write
down anything that comes to mind. Then ask them to
predict from the title what they think this story will be
about. Write predictions on board/overhead.
- Distribute copies of the
story "Aunty Misery."
- Remind students that
they are to highlight any word or idea that they do not
understand or any part that will be a good teacher-like
question.
- Model Passage
One and
Passage
Two using
Reciprocal Teaching strategies.
- After completing Passage
One and Passage Two, make sure students understand
Reciprocal Teaching strategies.
- Distribute Student
Scripts and Student Task Cards.
- Remind students to use
their bookmarks as guides.
- Ask Teacher/Leader #1 to
begin.
- After Teacher/Leader #5
has completed his/her part, distribute Reciprocal
Teaching Group Worksheets.
- Explain to students that
they will finish the story in groups and fill out all
sections of the Group Worksheet.
- After student groups
have completed the Group Worksheet, elicit, share, and
discuss group responses.
- Ask for volunteers from
the groups to help summarize the entire story on the
overhead or chalkboard.
This story about
________________ begins with ________________, discusses
how ________________, and ends with
________________.
- Distribute the reading
comprehension quiz and instruct students to complete.
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Assessment
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Reading Comprehension Quiz
Group Worksheet
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Reciprocal
Teaching: Aunty Misery
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Student Script:
Teacher/Leader #1
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SAY:
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Please highlight any word or
phrase that you do not understand as I read this part of the
lesson.
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READ:
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The following part of the
lesson to the class:
And so it happened that
when the children came back to taunt the old woman and to
steal her fruit, she sttod at her window watching them.
Several of them shimmied up the trunk of the pear tree
and immediately got stuck to it as it with glue. She let
them cry and beg for a ling time before she gave the tree
permission to let them gom on the condition that they
would never again steal her fruit or bother
her.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting
Card #1? Was your prediction correct?
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SAY:
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Who has Clarifying
Card #1? Is there a word or phrase that you did not
understand? (If there is more that one word, clarify one
word at a time.)
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
clarifying question?
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SAY:
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Who has Visualizing Card
#1? Please tell what picture came to your mind when I
read this part of the lesson.
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SAY:
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Who has Questioning
Card #1? Please ask a Teacher-like Question.
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
Teacher-like Question?
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SAY:
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Who has Summary Card
#1? Please summarize this part of the lesson in one
sentence.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting Card
#2? What do you think is going to happen in the next
part of the lesson?
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Reciprocal
Teaching: Aunty Misery
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Student Script:
Teacher/Leader #2
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SAY:
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Please highlight any word or
phrase that you do not understand as I read this part of the
lesson.
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READ:
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The following part of the
lesson to the class:
Time passed, and both
Aunty Misery and her tree greew bent and gnarled with
age. One day another traveler stopped at her door. This
one looked suffocated and exhausted, so the old woman
asked him what he wanted in her village. He answered her
in a voice that was dry and hoarse, as if he had to
swallowed a desert: "I am Death, and I have come to
take you with me."
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting
Card #2? Was your prediction correct?
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SAY:
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Who has Clarifying
Card #2? Is there a word or phrase that you did not
understand? (If there is more that one word, clarify one
word at a time.)
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
clarifying question?
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SAY:
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Who has Visualizing Card
#2? Please tell what picture came to your mind when I
read this part of the lesson.
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SAY:
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Who has Questioning
Card #2? Please ask a Teacher-like Question.
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
Teacher-like Question?
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SAY:
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Who has Summary Card
#2? Please summarize this part of the lesson in one
sentence.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting Card
#3? What do you think is going to happen in the next
part of the lesson?
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Reciprocal
Teaching: Aunty Misery
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Student Script:
Teacher/Leader #3
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SAY:
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Please highlight any word or
phrase that you do not understand as I read this part of the
lesson.
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READ:
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The following part of the
lesson to the class:
Thinking fast, Aunty
Misery said, "All right, but before I go, I would like to
pluck some pears from my beloved pear tree to remember
how much pleasure it brought me in this life. But, I am a
very old woman and cannot climb to the tallest branches
where the best fruit is; will you be so kind as to do it
for me?" With a heavy sigh like wind through a catacomb,
Death climbed the pear tree. Immediately he became stuck
to it as if with glue. And no matter how much he cursed
and threatened Aunty Misery would not give the tree
permission to release Death.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting
Card #3? Was your prediction correct?
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SAY:
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Who has Clarifying
Card #3? Is there a word or phrase that you did not
understand? (If there is more that one word, clarify one
word at a time.)
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
clarifying question?
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SAY:
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Who has Visualizing Card
#3? Please tell what picture came to your mind when I
read this part of the lesson.
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SAY:
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Who has Questioning
Card #3? Please ask a Teacher-like Question.
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
Teacher-like Question?
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SAY:
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Who has Summary Card
#3? Please summarize this part of the lesson in one
sentence.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting Card
#4? What do you think is going to happen in the next
part of the lesson?
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Reciprocal
Teaching: Aunty Misery
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Student Script:
Teacher/Leader #4
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SAY:
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Please highlight any word or
phrase that you do not understand as I read this part of the
lesson.
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READ:
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The following part of the
lesson to the class:
Many years passed, and
there were no deaths in the world. The people who made
their living from death began to protest loudly. The
doctors claimed no one bothered to come in for
examinations or treatments anymore because they did not
fear dying; the pharmacists' business suffered, too
because medicines are, like magic potions, brought to
prevent or postpone the inevitable; the preiests and
undertakers were unhappy with the situation also, for
obvious reasons. There were many old folks tired of life
who wanted to pass on to the next world to rest from the
miseries of this one.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting
Card #4? Was your prediction correct?
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SAY:
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Who has Clarifying
Card #4? Is there a word or phrase that you did not
understand? (If there is more that one word, clarify one
word at a time.)
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
clarifying question?
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SAY:
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Who has Visualizing Card
#4? Please tell what picture came to your mind when I
read this part of the lesson.
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SAY:
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Who has Questioning
Card #4? Please ask a Teacher-like Question.
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
Teacher-like Question?
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SAY:
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Who has Summary Card
#4? Please summarize this part of the lesson in one
sentence.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting Card
#5? What do you think is going to happen in the next
part of the lesson?
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Reciprocal
Teaching:Aunty Misery
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Student Script:
Teacher/Leader #5
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SAY:
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Please highlight any word or
phrase that you do not understand as I read this part of the
lesson.
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READ:
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The following part of the
lesson to the class:
Aunty Misery realized al
this, and not wishing to be unfair, she deal a deal with
her prisoner, Death: If he promised not ever to come for
her again, she would give him his freedom. He agreed. And
that is why so long as the world is the world, Aunty
Misery will always live.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting
Card #5? Was your prediction correct?
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SAY:
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Who has Clarifying
Card #5? Is there a word or phrase that you did not
understand? (If there is more that one word, clarify one
word at a time.)
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
clarifying question?
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SAY:
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Who has Visualizing Card
#5? Please tell what picture came to your mind when I
read this part of the lesson.
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SAY:
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Who has Questioning
Card #5? Please ask a Teacher-like Question.
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SAY:
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Does anyone else have a
Teacher-like Question?
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SAY:
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Who has Summary Card
#5? Please summarize this part of the lesson in one
sentence.
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SAY:
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Who has Predicting Card
#5? What do you think is going to happen
next?
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