What is interactive teaching in the context of primary classrooms? What is it that primary teachers and children actually do to interact effectively? Are there benefits in such interactions to both teaching and learning? In this work, a team of tutors and teachers working in a research partnership set out to try to find the answers to these questions in the context of the Literacy Hour in Key Stages 1 and 2. The book represents the story of this research and aims to develop for readers some of the practical and theoretical aspects which need to be considered if interactive teaching is to be understood and undertaken effectively in primary classrooms. The project was unique in using its own interactive processes called Reflective Dialogues , to help teachers make sense of their own teaching by capturing and analysing classroom sessions on video. Cameos of these incidents and reflections are interlaced throughout the book.