Reciprocal Teaching: Eddie Miranda Looks at New York
	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. My family and I came to New York from Puerto Rico. Here it is more exciting. You can have a better life here. But I don't know if we'll stay. Review the Reciprocal Teaching strategies and use the questions below to "model" the strategies: Clarifying: Are there any words in the passage that you don't 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 him? 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. Life here is different. The climate of Puerto Rico is better. It is much warmer there. We can do a lot outdoors. The weather here is hard. Some of my friends went back because of the New York weather. It is too cold. Clarifying: Are there any words or ideas you don't understand in this passage? Visualizing: Tell me what images and sounds came to your mind as I read this paragraph. Questioning: Why is life different in New York? 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 paragraph?
Eddie Miranda Lesson