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Annemarie Palincsar

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Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar is a scholar of education known for her research on literacy instruction, reciprocal teaching and cognitive apprenticeships. She is the Ann L. Brown Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan. She completed a BA in Special Education at Fitchburg State College in 1972 and an M.S. in Special Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974, and she is a member of the National Academy of Education. Her work is the root of the reciprocal teaching approach to reading comprehension.

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    Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar is a scholar of education known for her research on literacy instruction, reciprocal teaching, and cognitive apprenticeships.
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    Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar is a scholar of education known for her research on literacy instruction, reciprocal teaching, and cognitive apprenticeships.
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Rooted in the work of Annemarie Palincsar, this approach aims to improve reading in students using specific reading strategies, such as Questioning, Clarifying, Summarizing, and Predicting, to actively construct meaning from text.
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