Overview

Purpose

To capture students' oral words and phrases into a stable, collective reference. The intent of this routine is to stablize the fleeting language that students use in order for their own output to be used as a reference in developing their mathematical language. The teacher listens for, and scribes, the language students use during partner, small group, or whole class discussions using written words, diagrams, and pictures. The collected output can be organized, revoiced, or explicitly connected to other language in a display that all students and refer to, build on, or make connections with during future discussions or writing. Throughout the course of a unit, teachers can reference the displayed language as a model, update and revise the display as student language changes, and make bridges between student language and new disciplinary language. This routine provides feedback for students in a way that increases sense-making while simultaneously supporting meta-awareness of language. 

(Zweirs, J. et. al, 2017)

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Adapted from Los Angeles County Office of Education: Using the California English Learner Roadmap Teacher Toolkit