Mini Lessons
Maximum length of time for a mini lesson
What is 15 minutes
Maximum length of time for a conference
What is 5 minutes
What should teachers do while students write?
What is a conference?
What is sharing the pen
What is interactive writing
True or False Most of the writing workshop should be spent with students talking.
What is False (Most of the time should be spent with students writing)
The thing the teacher does before they start a conference
What is research
The part of the mini lesson when you send students off to write independently
What is the link
What are the components of the mini lesson?
What are connect, teach, active engagement and link
What is a mid workshop interuption?
What is a 1-2 minute opportunity to reinforce the mini lesson, show a technique or review
What is Writing Bill of Rights
what is a promise we make to our students about the literacy education he or she will receive?
What is the purpose of the If - Then Curriculum in K - 5 the unit of study materials?
What are
What are Assessment-Based Instruction which contains abbreviated versions of additional units of study—units that teachers might decide to teach before, after, or in between the core units to meet specific instructional needs.
The part of the lesson where students work with the teaching point, often turn and talk with a writing partner
What is active engagement
What is the length of Share time in writer's workshop?
What is 5 - 10 minutes?
Reasons to have writing partners
What are peer editing, complimenting, bounce ideas off each other, help each other improve writing, accountability, improve listening and speaking
Assessing students writing at the beginning of the unit with no teacher support
What are on demand writing assessments
True or False You should conference with your most needy students most
What is False (You should conference regularly with all students)
The first thing you do in a mini lesson
What is connect
Total length of writer's workshop
What is 20 - 40 minutes?
what are the components of writer's workshop?
What are mini lesson, independent writing, conference and share?
Mini lessons are strung together to make up this
What is a unit of study
True or False Writing Workshops should happen everyday.
What is True