1. Mini Lessons
•Connection
•Teaching Point
•Active Engagement
•Link

2. Connection
• Focuses the students by activating their
prior knowledge using a personal
experience
• Focuses the students by using a
previously taught skill or strategy

3. 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

4. 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

5. Active Involvement
• Hand gestures
• Continuums
• Summaries
• “Say Something” strategy

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Writing About Reading
• Somebody Wanted But So . . . Then
• Double Entry Journaling
• It Says . . . I Say . . . And So
• Post-its
• Write long
• Letters
• Book Reviews

10. Writing About Reading
• Somebody Wanted But So . . . Then
• Double Entry Journaling
• It Says . . . I Say . . . And So
• Post-its
• Write long
• Letters
• Book Reviews