For thousands of years, people have known that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else. “While we teach, we learn,” said the Roman philosopher Seneca. That is exactly why reciprocal teaching, a strategy that empowers students to "be the teacher" during small group reading, is a phenomenal method to implement into your reading lessons. What is Reciprocal Teaching?Reciprocal teaching uses four main strategies to help students comprehend text: predicting, questioning,