Planning a Mini Lesson
Literature Circles
Key Characteristics
Book Talk
100
When a mini lesson is conducted.
What is Reader's Workshop?
100
Responsible for analyzing interesting, unfamiliar, powerful, puzzling, important, especially challenging words in the section.
What is a Word Wizard?
100
When should students be given multiple opportunities to practice their new learning?
What is after the mini lesson?
100
True/False: The Book Talk never gives away the ending.
What is True?
200
How many minutes of explicit instruction is focused on a particular strategy?
What is 7-15 minutes?
200
In charge of sharing the connections he/she made as he/she was reading the selection.
What is a Connector?
200
Applying the strategy, skill, or behavior in various contexts and with various types of text.
What are ways to practice new learning?
200
Before the _________ is when a Book Talk occurs.
What is an Interactive Read Aloud?
300
Introduction, modeling the strategy, independent practice, and small group instruction.
What is the format of a mini lesson?
300
Responsible for coming up with the discussion questions for the selection.
What is a Discussion Director?
300
Mini lessons, independent reading, guided reading, conferences, and talking and writing about books.
What are ideas for a Reader's Workshop?
300
A short engaging and enthusiastic presentation designed to inspire others to read the same book.
What is the purpose of a Book Talk?
400
Character traits, reading fluently, previewing a book, cause and effect, and making connections.
What are mini lesson topics?
400
Responsible for summarizing the selection read in 1-2 short paragraphs.
What is a Reporter?
400
Identity, code breaker, meaning maker, text user, and text analyst.
What is the five part framework for powerful reading?
400
Think about the most recent texts you read for fun, jot down what you might say about the text, and share.
What is practicing writing a Book Talk?
500
The different strategies used in a mini lesson.
What are monitoring, activating and connecting to background knowledge, questioning, visualizing and inferring, determining importance, and summarizing and synthesizing.
500
Responsible for choosing passages from the reading selection to share with the group.
What is a Literary Luminary?
500
Choice, time to read, and teacher support and feedback.
What are the three characteristics of a Reading Workshop?
500
The purpose of a Book Talk is to motivate listeners in order to foster good reading, writing, and speaking skills by encouraging __________.
What is self directed learning?