Instructional+Moves

=Teaching Ideas:= Jeff Wilhelm writes about Hotseating as a way of engaging students in thinking hard about the people they're reading about.

Reciprocal teaching is a research-based instructional routine that has students assume the role of the teacher as they guide group members to use thinking strategies. Paliscar and Raphael developed and researched this process which was based on summarizing, predicting, clarifying, and questioning. This process has been modified to use the specific language of the thinking strategies.

Paired reading is a from of reciprocal teaching (or reciprocal reading) in which students work with a partner to read and discuss chunks of text.