Minilessons

What is it?
 * short, focused lessons on literacy strategies and skills
 * topics: how to write an entry in a log, comma use, drawing inferences, sentence combining
 * introduce a topic and connect it to the reading/writing students are involved in
 * effective way to actually learn how to use them
 * engage students and encourage them through scaffolding

What to do?
 * 1) Introduce the topic
 * 2) Share examples
 * 3) Provide information
 * 4) Supervise practice
 * 5) Assess learning

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