CHANDRA REINERS FEBRUARY 2010 Literacy Workshop: The Mini-Lesson Component

CHANDRA REINERSFEBRUARY 2010

Literacy Workshop: The Mini-Lesson Component

The Mini-Lesson

Work Time

Share/ Reflect/ Review

Mini-Lesson

STUDENT

Mini-Lesson Purposes: The First 20 Days

Management Mini-Lessons

• Establish the roles and routines-this is the vital part of establishing a successful workshop

Strategy & Skill Mini-Lessons

• Prepares students for becoming strategic readers

Literary Analysis Mini-

Lessons

• Prepares students for thinking about their learning

From Fountas & Pinnell’s Guided Readers and Writers: Grades 3-6

Management Mini-Lessons

The room arrangement must support the workshop model.

A circle/meeting area…yes, these are usually

cramped, but an integral part of

workshop success.

Management Mini-Lessons

Students must be guided and given explicit

expectations of what the Workshop Model looks like, sounds like, and feels like.

All students must be actively engaged and help

create living charts to refer to during worktime.

Strategy & Skill Mini-Lessons

• Strategy Lessons:

• Schema• Making Connections• Visualizing • Questioning• Inferring vs. Predicting• Synthesizing• Monitoring Comprehension

“Strategies are ‘in the head’ processes that readers employ as they construct meaning from print…”

• Skill Lessons:• Compare and contrast• Word work• Determining importance/Main

idea• Cause and effect• Authors purpose• Summarizing

Skills are “the more mechanical aspects of reading: recognizing words, monitoring for accuracy, using the punctuation…”

From pp. 128-129 Fountas & Pinnell’s Guided Readers and Writers: Grades 3-6

Literary Analysis Mini-Lessons

•Book Clubs/Lit Circles

•Document thinking in Reader Response Journals

• Independent Reading

Mini-Lesson Components

Connection

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Teach

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Demonstrate

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Explicitly tell/show example

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Shared Inquiry

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Guided Practice

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Active Engageme

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Mini-Lesson Components

Link to what they are going to do now