Westside Community Schools is conducting an action research project with the Nebraska MTSS Consortium and Lynette Block focused on instructional routines for grades K-1. Thirteen teachers across the district along with select reading coordinators, administrators, and instructional coaches are gaining skills focused on increasing phonemic awareness and phonics for all students. The goal is to first build accuracy and automaticity with reading so that students can apply what they learn and read. In response to analyzing our district data and seeing a need to enhance how we teach foundational reading skills, a small group of teachers volunteered to be a part of this project, during which they receive training and follow-up support as they begin to integrate this into their classroom instruction. Data will be collected throughout the process in order to measure the degree of impact these instructional routines have on our student performance as well as make future decisions that incorporate teacher input gathered during this project. Participants were highly engaged in the training and excited to get it started in their classrooms. Follow this link to see Joni Huebert teaching a group of students using some of the available routines.