reciprocal teaching (.74)

Definition: 

An instructional strategy which aims to foster better reading comprehension and to monitor students who struggle with comprehension. The strategy contains four steps: summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. It is "reciprocal" in that students and the teacher take turns leading a dialogue about the text in question, asking questions following each of the four steps. The teacher can model the four steps, then reduce her or his involvement so that students take the lead and are invited to go through the four steps after they read a segment of text.