What are mini-lessons?
Mini-lessons are a form of teaching and demonstrating that allows the
teacher to focus on an area of student need, to give students the information
they require, and to let them apply what they have been taught as they
read and write. They are divided into three broad categories, as seen
below:
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Procedures
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Craft
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Skills
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| Expectations for readers' workshop | How authors reveal characters | Concepts about print |
| Sources for finding good books | Types of conflict in stories | Main idea/supporting details |
| Choosing a book that fits you | Titles, leads, and endings | Cause/effect relationships |
| Responding to literature through writing, drama, and art | Parts of a book | Sequence of events |
| Discussing literature | Theme/author's message | Study skills |
Keeping a reading log book |
Genres | Understanding story elements |
| Using the class library | Author's style | Decoding by analogy |
Individual goals and self-evaluation |
The use of language |
Using meaning cues |
| Conferences | Poetry | Prefixes, root words, and suffixes |
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