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Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School
Kelly Gallagher
Stenhouse Publishers, 2003
Great book for motivation for reading!
The lessons in this book are wonderful. It gives students a practical reason for reading. It is the kind of book you can read and immediately put it into practice. You don't have to sit back for weeks and figure out how to incorporate it. It's all there right in ...
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25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing (Grades 3-6)
Adele Fiderer
Teaching Strategies, 1999
This book solved our problem!
This book is fantastic! Our son (age 9) is extremely bright and a good reader and has always been an excellent student. Now in 3rd grade, there is an emphasis on writing in his classroom and for some reason he developed what the teacher described as a "mental block" ...
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Trait-Based Writing Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons: 20 Graphic Organizers With Mini-Lessons to Help ...
Jennifer Jacobson
Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2008
Guide students through the writing process with 20 engaging graphic organizers geared toward the traits! They'll generate ideas, select just-right words, develop voice, and more. Interactive mini-lessons introduce each organizer; then photocopy for flexib
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Literature-Based Mini-Lessons To Teach Writing (Grades 1-3)
Susan Lunsford
Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 1999
A Teacher's Best Friend
As an educator of second grade children, I found this book extremely helpful and very practical in the teaching of young writers. The conversation style of the book helps the teacher in lesson planning as well as gives the teacher a clear picture of student ...
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Revisiting The Reading Workshop: Management, Mini-Lessons, & Strategies
Barbara Orehovec, Marybeth Alley
Scholastic, Inc., 2003
Quick, user-friendly, and thorough
One of THE most helpful books I've ever read regarding reader's workshop. I have used (and shared) this techniques over and over with my students & colleagues. I can't imagine my reader's workshop without this resource! You shouldn't either. It's worth the $15 and ...
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Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons to Teach Elaboration and Writer's Craft
Maity Schrecengost
Maupin House Publishing, 2001
An ideal classroom curriculum supplement
In Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons To Teach Elaboration & Writer's Craft, Maity Schrecengost provides classroom teachers with sixty self-contained "mini-lessons" targeting a specific writer's techniques or elaboration skills, as well as teaching the tips, tricks and ...
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Teaching Comprehension Strategies All Readers Need: Mini-Lessons That Introduce, Extend, and Deepen Reading ...
Nicole Outsen, Yulga Stephanie
Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2002
Great help for teachers needing comprehension strategy lessons!
This book helps teachers find lessons already laid out for instruction to focus on specific comprehension strategies their students may need. Good examples and additional resources are included.
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Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles
Harvey Daniels, Nancy Steineke
Heinemann, 2004
Mini-Lessons for Lit Circles
Excellent resource. Lots of great ideas, easily adaptable to various grade levels and abilities.
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Growing Up Writing: Mini-Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers
Connie Campbell Dierking, Sherra Ann Jones
Maupin House Publishing, 2003
Educators Recommend
The research is clear concerning writing workshops: They are the most effective way to teach the craft and process of writing. This being the case, they should not, contend the authors, be reserved for the upper grades. Rather, all writers-including kindergartners and ...
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Trait-Based Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing in Grades 2-4
Megan S. Sloan
Teaching Resources, 2005
Best writing book I've ever used!
I am a third grade teacher of mostly at-risk students (English Lang. Learners and low socio-economic students). I was frustrated with the format of most writing instruction books. They were boring or hard to follow. I also wanted to incorporate the 6 traits of ...
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Writing Mini-Lessons for Second Grade: The Four-Blocks Model
Dorothy P. Hall
Mark Twain Media, 2002
Mini-writing lesson
I enjoy writing Mini-Lessons for second grade. It explains and gives examples for easy lessons. The book explains different levels of students giving the teacher an understanding of what to expect if you have never taught 2nd grade before. I used the Writing ...
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Revisiting the Writing Workshop: Management, Assessment, and Mini-Lessons
Marybeth Alley, Barbara Orehovec
Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007
Fantastic resource; revisit writer's workshop!
I have found this resource book to be very helpful as I try to find a better approach about the constant struggle of managing writer's workshop. I am hoping to implement many of the great ideas into my classroom after the holiday rush!
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Easy Mini-Lessons for Building Vocabulary (Grades 4-8)
Laura Robb
Teaching Resources, 1999
A Plethora of Ideas
Laura Robb's guide to teaching vocabulary minilessons is terrific. I have been using it since it arrived and do not know how I managed before I bought it. I find the strategies helpful as I struggle to provide the kind of vocabulary instruction the children need while ...
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Comprehension Mini-lessons: Inference & Cause and Effect
Leann Nickelsen, Sarah Glasscock
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2004
Comprehension Mini-Lessons
I love this book! I just started using it this week with my study skills class and it is wonderful! My junior high students did not have a clue about inferences and this book has easy to follow mini-lessons that are truly planned out for you. There is little ...
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Strategy-Building Bookmarks to Use With Any Text: 15 Bookmarks With Companion Mini-Lessons to Help Students ...
Bernadette Lambert
Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007
A great tool to get students thinking about their reading!
Excellent product that really has students focus on one skill or strategy at a time for five staight days. I find that following the mini lessons as recommended with a read-a-loud usually takes more than the 10-15 minutes indicated. But it is worth doing the ...
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