Engaging the thinking of a classroom full of students with different backgrounds, skills, interests, and motivations is difficult.
Reciprocal teaching offers an answer.
Reciprocal teaching is an instructional procedure developed by Annemarie Palinscar and Ann Brown. This procedure is designed to involve teachers and students in a dialogue about text material, during which four comprehension strategies are actively employed. Generating questions helps to promote purposeful reading. When students ask for clarification, they become more aware of potential barriers to comprehension, such as unfamiliar concepts. Predicting encourages thoughtful, strategic reading.