- •Students respond to a focused question through a guided Socratic dialogue.
- •Socra asks follow-up questions that probe assumptions and require students to clarify or revise their thinking.
- •The dialogue culminates in a final student-written response that synthesizes the ideas developed during the conversation.
- •Teachers receive a complete transcript showing how the student arrived at their claim.
- •Students work directly with a short passage or excerpt, annotating patterns, tensions, ambiguities, or questions.
- •Socra prompts students to explain why they noticed particular lines and to ground interpretations in specific textual evidence.
- •Teachers see how students actually read: what they notice, what they overlook, and how they connect language to meaning.
- •Designed to teach close reading as a skill.