A Sample Lesson: This lesson utilizes the four reciprocal teaching strategies questioning, summarizing, clarifying, and predicting (Palincsar & Brown, 1984) while engaging students in reading and gathering information from online texts. In the process, students are invited work in small groups to:
Formulate Questions or solve problems. Students set their own purpose for reading.
Search for Information using a search engine or other resource to locate a variety of websites on the topic of interest.
Critically Evaluate Information to determine if reliability and relevancy of the resource.
Synthesize across and between sites, gathering facts from several resources to generate ideas to share and exchange.
Communicate Ideas to Others using a variety of information and communication technologies including email, blogs, wikis, instant messages, podcasts, video conferences, and other means of exchanging ideas (Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004).
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