RML K-5
What are Reading Minilessons?
As a whole group instructional context, reading minilessons are concise, explicit lessons with a purposeful application in building your students' independent reading competencies. Each minilesson engages students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their own reading or writing about reading. Often, interactive read-aloud books that students have already heard serve as mentor texts from which they generalize the understanding.
Four Types of RML
Management
These lessons cover routines that are essential to the smooth functioning of the classroom and students' self-management and productivity. Most of your minilessons at the beginning of the school year will focus on management.
Literary Analysis
These lessons build students' awareness of the characteristics of various genres and of the elements of fiction and nonfiction texts. The books that you read during interactive read-aloud and shared reading serve as mentor texts when applying the principles of literary analysis.
Strategies and Skills
While most teaching related to processing texts will take place in guided reading, general lessons can reinforce broad principles of which every reader in the class may need to be reminded.
Writing About Reading
These lessons introduce the reader's notebook and help students use this important tool for reflecting on their reading and documenting their reading life for the year.
What Reading Minilessons Look Like
The Reading Minilessons Book is implemented during whole-group instruction. During a reading minilessons, the teacher presents specific, explicit instruction to help children become independent readers for life.
Minilessons are most powerful when taught in response to an authentic need that you observe in most readers in your classroom. You many find it helpful to present four types of minilessons throughout the school year.
"Reading minilessons form the "glue" that connect literacy learning, makes it explicit, and turns it over to students to apply independently." - Fountas and Pinnell
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