50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy, 3rd edition

• Selected to ensure that all students engage in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing as part of the literacy process. All routines are:
• Evidence-based: A clear research base is presented with every instructional routine–readers learn when and why to use a particular approach.
• Useful: Only those routines that have been used successfully by the authors or their colleagues are included, avoiding others that are too complex, require too much time, or cannot be implemented with groups of students.
• Content area appropriate: The routines can be used in every middle and high school content area or class.
• Taken from real classrooms, real students, and real results.
• Practical examples are presented for each routine, illustrating the ways it has been used in actual classrooms.
• NEW! Detailed classroom scenarios that are stronger and easier to implement. Many of the student work samples are from the authors’ own classrooms, and give readers reliable examples of actual outcomes.
• Organized for easy and quick referencing.
• The alphabetical arrangement makes it easy to find a specific routine.
• An index on the inside front cover specifies each strategy’s literacy focus and whether it is meant to be used before, during, or after reading.
• Introductions for each routine include brief reviews of the research.
• Step-by-step guidelines for implementing the routines follow the introduction.
• Classroom examples further illustrate the successful implementation of each strategy.
• Applicable to special groups, and focused on a variety of content areas:
• Specific applications for English learners are highlighted where appropriate, with additional information on how best to adjust the routine to fit their unique needs.
• Specific applications for struggling readers who need interventions to ensure that they read and write more and better every day, including read-alouds, shared reading, text structures, independent reading, and echo-reading tasks.
• NEW! Focus on additional content areas: This edition expands content area examples beyond English, math, science, and social studies classes to include examples from PE, music, art, family and consumer sciences, and even more vocational and visual and performing arts classes.

While continuing to feature the most successful instructional routines, this edition also includes these updates:

• NEW! Detailed classroom scenarios that are easier to implement. Many of the student work samples are from the authors’ own classrooms, and give readers reliable examples of actual outcomes.

  • NEW! New routines that address the Common Core State Standards. Instructional routines specifically designed to fit the requirements of the current standards include close reading, annotation, text-dependent questions, and collaborative conversation.

• The scenarios have been reviewed and revised to ensure consistency with the curriculum and instruction recommended by the Common Core State Standards, though these strong and effective instructional practices remain useful even in areas not implementing the CCSS.
• NEW! Up-to-date research reviews and references. The newest edition features reviews of the current research, new studies published since the previous edition, and the assurance that each routine remains relevant and effective for content area reading.
• NEW! A focus on additional content areas. This edition expands content area examples beyond English, math, science, and social studies classes to include examples from PE, music, art, family and consumer sciences, and even more vocational and visual and performing arts classes. In each case, a profiled teacher has used the instructional routine successfully with content regularly taught in a real classroom.