Secondary Literacy Guide

Partner, Pair, Practice Routine

Purpose: To reinforcement pronunciation and conceptual knowledge of English sounds and vocabulary already presented in the lesson, and to increase automaticity in authentic uses of language in context. __________________________________________________________________________ Partner, Pair, Practice is an embedded routine throughout lessons and is essential reinforcement to ensure retention of the language in the lesson, to increase variations in response, and to heighten individual responsibility to listen and respond. When implementing this routine, consider the following supports: 1. Chunk the learning task into steps and post them where they can be seen and reviewed. 2. Model a sample turn of the Partner Practice with a proficient student or a classroom assistant. 3. Provide specific sentence frames for turns in the activity. Wherever possible, use these to move student past silent work or single word responses, (ie instead of simply saying “jump” encourage, “The action is jump!” or “The person is jumping!”) 4. Consider having a third person report on the answer in a different Point of View to increase practice with 3rd person pronouns. (ie if a partner answered “I don’t have a pencil”, have the third person say, “Mamud doesn’t have a pencil). 5. Where possible, allow students to include their culture or language in an activity, such as translating the words into heritage language as part of a response or modifying the task to include how the topic presents in their country of origin. 6. When monitoring partnerships, take the opportunity to recast specific students’ language as your observe linguistic gaps.