Dr. Rebecca Palacios is an educator who taught preschool for more than thirty years in Corpus Christi, Texas. Palacios is also a teacher mentor and the former vice chair of the National Board For Professional Teaching Standards.
Dr. Rebecca Silverman is an Associate Professor of Early Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She specializes in language and literacy development and instruction, with a focus on children with learning differences, vocabulary and comprehension development, and children from low-income and English-learning backgrounds.
Reciprocal teaching is a cooperative learning strategy that aims to improve students’ reading comprehension skills, with four components: predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing. A group of students take turns acting as the teacher in guiding the comprehension of a text.
