chandra reiners february 2010 literacy workshop: the mini-lesson component
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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
Mini-Lesson Components
Teach
Mini-Lesson Components
Demonstrate
Mini-Lesson Components
Explicitly tell/show example
Mini-Lesson Components
Shared Inquiry
Mini-Lesson Components
Guided Practice
Mini-Lesson Components
Active Engageme
nt
Mini-Lesson Components
Link to what they are going to do now