Onboarding Activity 5

Topic: Guide to Reading Workshop (k-2): Chapter 7: Architecture of Mini Lesson

Activity & Discussion Questions:

●       Discuss the parts of a mini lesson.

●       Select one mini lesson from one unit and practice delivering it to yourself or each other.  What do you notice about the mini lesson?

●       Read this teaching point:  (from If..Then book Unit: Readers get to know characters by performing their books)

○       Teaching Point: “Today I want to teach you that readers often put themselves in the characters’ shoes to imagine what they are thinking, and what they would say. They can role-play with a partner to make the characters talk and think.”

Use this teaching point to create mini lesson:

○       Connection:

○       Teaching Point:

○       Teaching:

○       Active Engagement:

○       Link:

Outcome:  Understanding the rationale behind the mini lesson structure. Be able to model a mini lesson and to create a mini lesson when ONLY given a teaching point.