Mini-Lesson Videos
Explore the demonstration lessons using Pathways 2.0 skills and strategies specifically designed to enhance your teaching of the curriculum.
The videos are categorized according to the three Pathways 2.0 blocks:
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
Reading 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
Writing Workshop:
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
