"The word routine gets a bad rap, too. It is sometimes used to describe the day-to-day, monotonous patterns of our everyday lives, often perceived as boring and unimaginative. This word has somehow lost its truth along the way. Routine needs an ally these days, and Judith and Andrea have come to its rescue! The fact is, routines are the foundational architecture for creativity, and in the classroom they give birth to deeper reading, rich writing, and meaningful conversation."
-Tanny McGregor, author of Comprehension Connections

Routines are the backbone of well-run classrooms. They give kids just enough structure to count on and grow from. Core Instructional Routines offers ideas that give every student practice with reading, writing, speaking, and listening-and that open up numerous opportunities for differentiated instruction.

Judy Dodge and Andrea Honigsfeld's instructional guidebook provides teaching routines you can adapt to any content area, to fiction and nonfiction texts, and to any student's needs. They aren't busy work or curricular filler but essential frameworks for joyful, productive learning. Judy and Andrea share: 

• dozens of research-backed, classroom-tested routines 
• a toolbox for implementation and differentiation
• research summaries on how routines help learners
• reproducible templates and helpful student samples
• essential questions for study groups.

And even though standards and mandated curricula tell us what we must teach, you can turn to Core Instructional Routines to help you decide how to teach because it helps you: 

• see what addressing the standards can look like in your classroom
• establish and maintain classroom expectations
• work toward specific literacy goals
• support the skills and habits of mind for college and career readiness
• guide students toward independence
• create additional opportunities to meet everyone's needs.

"By showing students what they can expect and count on," write Judy and Andrea, "you will establish a healthy environment for learning, and you can feel confident that you are providing instruction that will build skills for students to be successful in school." Trust Core Instructional Routines for results that are anything but routine.

About the Author 
Judy Dodge is the coauthor, with Andrea Honigsfeld, of the Heinemann title Core Instructional Routines. She is a former teacher, an educational consultant, and a national presenter. Currently she helps teachers enhance the individual talents of diverse learners in an era of Common Core Standards. Her focus includes work in study skills, reading and writing across the content areas, formative assessments, differentiated instruction, and designing tiered activities to provide appropriate challenge for all learners. Her greatest passion is to collaborate with like-minded teachers to create joyful, yet productive routines to help today's diverse learners succeed. In addition to her Heinemann title, Judy is the author of several articles and books, including The Study Skills Handbook (1994), Differentiation in Action (2006), and 25 Quick Formative Assessments for a Differentiated Classroom (2009).

Andrea Honigsfeld is coauthor, with Judy Dodge, of the Heinemann title Core Instructional Routines. She is a professor in the Division of Education at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York where she teaches graduate education courses related to cultural and linguistic diversity, linguistics, ESL methodology, and action research. Before entering the field of teacher education, Andre as an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary (Grades 5 - 8 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K - 3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. John's University, New York, where she conducted research on individualized instruction and learning styles. She has published extensively on working with English language learners and providing individualized instruction. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past 12 years, she has been presenting at conferences across the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, the Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates. She frequently offers staff development primarily focusing on effective literacy strategies and collaborative instructional practices for English-as-a-second-language and general education teachers. In addition to her Heinemann title, Andrea coauthored Differentiated Instruction for At-Risk Students (2009) and coedited the five-volume Breaking the Mold of Education series (2010 - 2013). With Maria Dove, she coauthored three best-sellers: Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K - 5, Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, 6 - 12 (both 2013), and Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010). The same writing team also coedited, Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom (2012). Andrea is passionate about teaching and writing! She is raising three boys who have each embraced the love of reading and books (and ipads) from the earliest age.