instructional process to teach students cognitive strategies that might lead to improved learning outcomes (initially in reading comprehension). The emphasis is on teachers enabling their students to learn and use cognitive strategies such as summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting, and these are “supported through dialogue between teacher and students as they attempt to gain meaning from text” (Rosenshine & Meister, 1994, p. 479). Each student takes a turn at being the “teacher”, and often the teacher and students take turns leading a dialogue concerning sections of a text.
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