Secondary Literacy Guide

INSTRUCTIONAL ROUTINES IN ELA

Considerations for Educators

Instructional Routines are consistent structures that provide expectations from teachers for students in order to actively engage in learning. Instructional Routines support student learning by giving structure and clear expectations to time and learning interactions, with the purpose of learning academic content. When teachers utilize instructional routines with new content, students can focus on learning new content because the structure and process are already familiar and consistent. When students know what to expect and what is expected of them, anxiety & off-task behavior, decrease while confidence and engagement increase. Routines make learning visible. The following routines increase instructional intensity in key academic skills: content knowledge, vocabulary, fluency, language development, and comprehension. These routines can be used as scaffolds to increase intensity for ALL students in order to provide robust core instruction. The routines also support students with low language or language acquisition and should used to contextualize the standardized plan. A CSD routines ring for Phonemic Awareness and Phonics can be found here.

Align routines to instructional target.

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Practice routines with familiar content first.

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Maintain a perky pace to ensure engagement.

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Plan and practice each step of the routine prior to instruction.

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Keep routines consistent.

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Seek coaching feedback with implementation of new routines.

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Provide positive and corrective feedback to students during routines.

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Routines

Think, Discuss, Write, Read, Share

Multisyllabic Word Decoding

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Close Reading Decodable Text Spelling Dictation

Systematic Vocabulary

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Story Share

Scaffolding Difficult Text

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