The document outlines the structure and components of mini lessons, which include a connection, teaching point, active engagement, and link. The connection activates prior knowledge, the teaching point clearly explains what is being taught and models the skill or strategy. Students then actively engage by practicing the new skill. The lesson ends with a link that summarizes and sends students off to apply what they learned.

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