Collaborative Learning

I believe collaborative learning does support literacy because two or more students working together have different prior knowledge and experiences that can help the other students.. For example, two students are working on summarizing a story, one student has never had anyone read to him/her at home or ask questions about stories before. The other student has parents who would ask him/her to tell them what was the story they just read about. This student would be able to help the other student in strategies he/she learned about summarizing a story. Having students simply work alone does not take into factor that not every student has had experience with literacy before entering school or the classroom. Collaborative learning allows students to teach each other which may help them retain the information better since it is coming from a peer.