Reading & Literacy
Promoting Successful Literacy Acquisition through Structured Pedagogy
Structured pedagogy enables the teacher to reach students with varying needs more effectively and thus helps develop students’ literacy skills more effectively. This paper describes what structured pedagogy is and is not, and introduces the following principles: Maximizing instructional time, systematic and explicit instruction, instructional routines, scaffolding, assessment informed instructional decisions, and socio-emotional engagement for learning. The paper also discusses frequent challenges in implementing these principles in international contexts as well as a case example of a classroom where the structured pedagogy principles are employed.