The eight Everyday Excellence literacy routines are designed to be used together regularly in all disciplines. They are simple and flexible enough to be used daily to engage students in reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking in every classroom.
Facilitate a variety of structured academic conversations that enable students to monitor and build understanding.
Teach students to monitor their comprehension, and check for understanding frequently through structured questions.
Scaffold direct instruction to increase comprehensible input and meet the literacy and language needs of diverse learners.
Frontload new learning and plan a response to misunderstandings to make learning more accessible to students.
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