Cooperative interpretation of particular texts can boost literacy at a number of other levels. Michaels (1995) discusses reciprocal teaching, developed by Brown and Palincsar, asa useful strategy for using students’ home-based ways of speaking and reasoning as abridge to the development of school-based literacies. In this approach, the students and teacher engage in a dialogue, collaboratively developing an interpretation of a particular text while reading it together as a group. Students take turns asking questions about the text,while others summarize or predict what will come next and clarify questions and answers.