Mini Lessons •Connection

•Teaching Point

•Active Engagement

•Link

Connection

• Focuses the students by activating their prior knowledge using a personal experience

• Focuses the students by using a previously taught skill or strategy

Teaching

• Needs to be specific

• Tell students what you will be teaching

• Display teaching point

• Model what students will be expected to do

• Think aloud and show students your thought process

• Create a chart of your teaching

Active Involvement

• Students will “try out” what skill or strategy that was taught

• Students can co-create a chart along with you or add to an existing one

• Turn and Talk

• Stop and Jot

• Notebook Entries

• Post-its

Active Involvement

• Hand gestures

• Continuums

• Summaries

• “Say Something” strategy

Link

• Summarize quickly what you taught

• Send students off with a goal to “try it”

• Give clear, explicit instructions of your expectations

• Remind students they can use charts or notebooks for reference

• Remind students they can use what they learned today every day

Share

• Celebrate students using the skill/strategy you taught today

• Remind students of previous lessons that students are using today

• Have students explain how they used the new learning

Accountable Talk

• “Say Something” strategy • Stop and Jot • Ask a question • Reference the text • Draw upon outside evidence (connections)• “Somebody Wanted But So” strategy • Reading Notebook entries• Different types of note-taking

Writing About Reading

• Somebody Wanted But So . . . Then

• Double Entry Journaling

• It Says . . . I Say . . . And So

• Post-its

• Write long

• Letters

• Book Reviews