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Concept Anchoring Routine

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Instructional materials for this component of the Strategic Instruction Model are available only through professional development sessions conducted by certified SIM instructors.

The Concept Anchoring Routine is used to introduce and anchor a new concept to a concept that is already familiar to students.

In research studies with students in secondary science and social studies classes, high-achieving, average-achieving, and low-achieving students (including those with learning disabilities) who had been taught with the Anchoring Routine answered more test questions correctly than those students who had not received the routine instruction.

Students with LD taught with the Anchoring Routine scored an average of 25 percentage points higher than those who were not taught with the routine. Low-achieving, average-achieving, and high-achieving students taught with the Anchoring Routine scored averages of 27, 19, and 7 percentage points higher than their respective groups that were not taught with the routine.