The teacher's role in the discussion is to (a) use open-ended questioning techniques to encourage discussion and greater understanding of the text,
(b) encourage the class to discuss disagreements and conflicting answers using both prior knowledge of the topic and the text as evidence,
(c) make connections with previous chapters,
(d) make connections with students' prior experiences,
and (e) help students to reflect upon why and how SCAN and RUN and other reading strategies are important tools to use for understanding text.