Reciprocal Teaching: Aunty Misery
	Passage One and Passage Two
Procedures	Read Passage One below to students. Remind students to highlight any word or idea that they do not understand. This is a story about an old, very old woman who lived alone in her little hut with no other company than a beautiful pear tree that grew at her door. She spent all her time taking care of her pear tree. But the neighborhood children drove the old woman crazy by stealing her fruit. They would climb her tree, shake its delicate limbs, and run away with armloads of golden pears, yelling insults at "Aunty Misery," as they called her. Review the Reciprocal Teaching strategies and use the questions below to "model" the strategies: Clarifying: Are there any words or ideas that you do not understand? Visualizing: What image comes to your mind as you hear this being read? Questioning: Teacher-Like Questions: Who is this story about? What do we know about her? Summarizing: What is the main idea of this passage? What is it mostly about? How do you know that? Predicting: What do you think the next part will be about? Repeat the above process using Passage Two below. One day a pilgrim stopped at the old woman's hut and asked her permission to spend the night under her roof. Aunty Misery saw that he had an honest face and bade the traveler come in. She fed him and made a bed for him in front of her hearth. In the morning, while he was getting ready to leave, the stranger told her that he would show his gratitude for her hospitality by granting her one wish. "There is only one thing that I desire," said Aunty Misery. "Ask and it shall be yours," replied the stranger, who was a sorcerer in disguise. "I wish that anyone who climbs up my pear tree should not be able to come back down until I permit it." "Your wish is granted," said the stranger, touching the pear tree as he left Aunty Misery's house. Clarifying: What is a pilgrim? What is a sorcerer? Are there any other words or ideas in this passage that you don't understand? Visualizing: Tell me what images and sounds came to your mind as I read this paragraph. Questioning: Why is the stranger in disguise? Why did Aunty Misery make the wish that she did? Summarizing: What is the main idea of this paragraph? Predicting: Who has Predicting Card #1? What do you think the author may tell us in the next section?
Aunty MIsery Lesson