Learners should be taught how to:

• Survey materials and identify text organization
• Read to confirm organization of ideas
• Reorganize information for their personal understanding and use.¹¹

Additional enhancement routines

• Course Organizer Routine: helps practitioners to introduce and maintain courses so that all learners in the class have a clear understanding of the courses.
• Unit Organizer Routine: helps practitioners to introduce units so that all learners see and understand the key ideas of the units, the relationships and the outcomes to be achieved.
• Lesson Organizer Routine: helps practitioners to initiate lessons that last one or more days so that the learners are aware of their relationship to the larger units of instruction.¹²

Case study integration - Tom

Brief profile of Tom

Tom needs help with his expressive writing. He has difficulties with organization, spelling, grammar and editing. Tom has enrolled in the LBS program at the local adult learning centre. There are 11 other peers in his small group who share challenges with writing and individually possess specific strengths and weaknesses. Although Tom has not been officially diagnosed with an auditory learning disability (based on his initial assessment), he exhibits a number of characteristics of this type of disability.

The challenge faced by the practitioner is how to instruct the writing process and meet the individual learner's needs, including potential learning disabilities.