What is HotSpot Reading? To the Teacher 2

A pair or a triplet of Students co-read and discuss any sort of study-material distributed by the Teacher / Trainer. They stop reading at loaded words, or expressions, or data, or bits of information, i. e. at HotSpots, and spill out whatever crosses their mind.

• If they know it and it produces a new thought, or it links in an old association, that's why.
• If they don't know it and it raises a good question, that's why.
• In this way the activity involves students in their own learning. They are allowed to tailor their own progress, and to learn at their own pace.
• They are given the opportunity to ask questions, and to stop and test their learning en route.
• The whole session is like an extended conversation that forms a two-way communication link. and there is a measure of symmetry between the peers.
• The behaviour of the peers becomes concerted, and cooperative, and it is directed towards a common goal, i. e. synthetic understanding, soon followed by analytic understanding.
• What peers learn here is not learned as a subject. It is learned as a revelation with a concern element in it.