This study examined the effects of strategy instruction and reciprocal teaching on students' reading comprehension skills. Students received instruction in activating background knowledge, summarizing text, generating questions, clarifying meanings, predicting text, and were assigned to one of four conditions: individualized grammar instruction, reciprocal teaching in pairs, reciprocal teaching in small groups, or a control group. Results showed that reciprocal teaching in small groups led to the greatest improvements in reading comprehension, question generation, summarization and prediction skills both immediately after and 3 weeks following the intervention compared to other conditions or the control group. The study supports explicit instruction of reading strategies supplemented by reciprocal teaching in small groups to enhance reading comprehension.