Mini-Lesson Videos
Reading Workshop:
Word Study:
Writing Workshop:
Shared Read Aloud
Grade 1, Week 2, Day 1
Book: Ellen Ochoa
Strategies: Previewing, Intro to text, KWL
Objective: Participate in collaborative discussions, including prayer.
Comprehension Mini Lesson
Grade 1, Week 2, Day 3
Book: Ellen Ochoa
Strategy: Text Dependent Questions,
How to Cite Evidence (text and pictures),
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Questions
Objective: Ask and answer questions
about key details
Shared Read Aloud
Grade 1, Week 4, Day 1
Book: Ellen Ochoa
Strategies: Reading Pictures, Picture Walk, Index Cards & Exit Ticket, 5W & H
Objective: Ask and answer questions
about key details in a text and read aloud
Comprehension Mini Lesson
Grade 1, Week 4, Day 1B
Book: Ellen Ochoa
Strategies: Context Clues,
Illustration, Text Match
Objective: Use illustrations and
details to describe key items
Comprehension Mini Lesson
Grade 2, Week 3, Day 1
Book: Odd Boy Out
Strategies: Reading Between the Lines, Linked into Cause & Effect, Close Reading
Objective: Determine meaning of
key words and details (RI4)
Shared Read Aloud
Grade 2, Week 4, Day 1
Book: Odd Boy Out
Strategies: Fix up Strategies,
Self-Monitoring, I Heard/I think/I Wonder
Objective: Recount and describe
key ideas or details
Guided Reading
Grade 3, Week 1, Day 3, 4
Book: Mercees & the Chocolate Pilot
Strategy: Guided Reading Lesson -
Thomas Edison
Objective: Read and comprehend informational texts of appropriate complexity, independently and proficiently
Interactive Read-Aloud
(Speaking/Listening)
Grade 4, Week 3, Day 3
Book: George Washington Carver
Strategies: Speaking/Listening Standards, Story Checklist
Objective: Tell a story with key details
to support main ideas
Whole Group Instruction,
Interactive Read Aloud
Grade 5, Week 1, Day 1
Book: Guardians of the Mercy Seat
Strategies: Interactive Read Aloud,
SWBST, Graphic Organizer
Objective: Summarize a text read aloud
Comprehension Mini Lesson / Collaborative Discussion
Grade 7, Week 1, Day 3, 4
Book: Shepherd Warrior
Strategies: Close Reading,
Read with Your Pencil
Objective: Use close reading
to analyze a psalm
Spelling
Grade 2, Week 1, Day 3, 4
Book: Mercedes & the Chocolate Pilot
Strategies: Open Sort, Buddy Sort, Blind Sort
Objective: Spell words with phonograms ending with consonant clusters and
double consonants VCC
Spelling
Grade 2, Week 3, Day 4
Book: Shepherd Warrior
Strategies: Category Sort,
Spelling Pattern Words
Objective: Sort words
based on their category
Spelling
Grade 2, Week 4, Day 1
Book: Odd Boy Out
Strategy: Word Hunt
Objective: Read, write, and
spell consonant cluster words
Spelling
Grade 2, Week 4, Day 1B
Book: Odd Boy Out
Strategy: Closed Sort
Objective: Read, write, and
spell consonant cluster words
Writing Mini-Lesson
Grade 4, Week 3, Day 3
Book: George Washington Carver
Strategy: Drafting a Narrative,
story frame, oral rehearsal (partners)
Objective: Draft a story
Writing Mini-Lesson
Grade 4, Week 4, Day 1
Book: George Washington Carver
Strategy: Fictional Narrative,
Pre-Writing, Story Map
Objective: Using a story map