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4 first-person accounts are presented charting the routes that recipro
cal teaching took from the college classroom to a variety of classroom
adaptations. After a college professor chronicles her presentation of
the reciprocal teaching strategy and other strategies in a graduate c
ourse, 3 teachers describe how they taught the strategies in their cla
ssrooms at grades 1, 4, and 7. Teachers discuss their experiences usin
g reciprocal teaching and the other strategies as they learned by tria
l and error and from each other how to make reciprocal teaching work i
n their classrooms. These teachers learned to use strategies in combin
ation to produce results that differed from those that the original pr
oponents of the strategies envisioned.