Secondary Literacy Guide

Read 180 Routines

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Routine

Overview

Steps

The Academic Discussion routine encourages active participation by all students as they listen attentively and participate in collaborative conversations that develop advanced listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

1. Brainstorm 2. Respond in Writing

Academic Discussion

3. Exchange and Record Ideas 4. Report and Compare Ideas

1. Set Purpose for Initial Viewing 2. Discuss Initial Responses 3. Set Purpose for Second Viewing 4. Complete the Media Outline 5. Write Essential Understandings

This routine provides students with a listening and note ‐ taking scaffold to focus their attention during lessons with multimedia.

Analyzing Media

6. Interact 7. Report 8. Reflect

The Building Fluency routines provide various levels of support as students read text multiple times for different purposes. Teachers scaffold support and gradually decrease the scaffolds as students become proficient. There are six Building Fluency routines linked to the right. The Close Reading routine guides students to read text more than once, focusing on a different purpose each time. An important element of Close Reading is citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking about text in order to support conclusions. The Do Now routine concentrates on one of two consistent task types and focuses students’ attention on a brief and accountable academic task as soon as they enter the classroom.

1. Oral Cloze 1 2. Oral Cloze 2 3. Modeled Fluent Reading 4. Choral Reading 5. Partner Cloze 6. Independent Reading

Building Fluency

1. Set the Purpose 2. First Read 3. Second Read 4. Third Read 5. Report

Close Reading

1. Assign the Task 2. Facilitate Partner Discussion and Feedback 3. Facilitate Whole-Class Reporting.

Do Now