Timings Of The Literacy Block

A typical 120 minutes structured literacy block: 

• Daily review of previously learned content (15 minutes)

• Explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instruction (20–30 minutes)

• Decoding and reading (20 minutes)

• Sentence level transcription instruction (15 minutes)

• Shared writing (an opportunity to promote partner talk idea generation 

and participation in the practice of segmenting while reviewing key, 

previously learned skills and knowledge) (15 minutes)

• Language and literature-based lessons such as text-based unit including 

syntax, concepts from the top of the rope such as character de