Content Enhancement Routines

Content Enhancement Routines are teaching methods designed for use in general education classrooms to promote learning for all students.

The Course Organizer Routine, Unit Organizer Routine, and Lesson Organizer Routine are like maps to learning, each containing increasing detail. The Course Organizer provides an overall framework for learning and sets expectations for the course. The Unit Organizer shows how units within the course and critical pieces of information are related. The Lesson Organizer involves the same kind of planning at the lesson level.

The Clarifying Routine focuses on a topic and explores details of the topic, making connections to important ideas and concepts.

The Framing Routine develops literacy and thinking skills by transforming abstract ideas into concrete information students can more easily grasp and discuss.

The Survey Routine helps students who are having difficulty reading complex text by guiding them in creating an overview of the text.

The Concept Anchoring Routine helps students understand a new concept by likening it to something they already understand.

The Concept Comparison Routine guides students in comparing and contrasting characteristics of two or more concepts.

The Concept Mastery Routine helps students understand key information and where it fits within a larger body of knowledge.

The Quality Assignment Routine helps teachers plan, present, and engage students in meaningful assignments.

The Question Exploration Routine helps groups of students understand significant course content by exploring a "critical question."

The Recall Enhancement Routine focuses on methods to boost students' ability to remember information.

The Vocabulary LINCing Routine helps students use two powerful memory devices to remember the meaning of complex terms.

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