The effects of using cognitive strategies on children’s reading comprehension

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Further ideas about how to implement reciprocal teaching in your classroom can be found in two booklets from the Primary National Strategy:

Understanding reading comprehension: 2. Strategies to develop reading comprehension
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/1162245/pns_nls131005readcomp2.pdf (Accessed on 20/03/07)
Understanding reading comprehension: 3. Further strategies to develop reading comprehension
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/1162245/pns_nls131005readcomp3.pdf (Accessed on 20/03/07)

Another digest, which looks at the importance of dialogue in improving comprehension, is:
How classroom talk supports reading comprehension: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes/speakandlisten/classroomtalk/?version=1 (Accessed on 20/03/07)

The Teacher Training Resource Bank has a helpful article on reading development: http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/viewarticle.aspx?contentId=12363 (Accessed on 20/03/07)

The key text on reciprocal teaching is:
Palincsar, A. S. & Brown, A.L. (1984). Reciprocal teaching of comprehension-fostering and comprehension monitoring activities. Cognition and Instruction, 2, 117-175.

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