The lessons are organized into sections:

Writing | Guided Reading | Working With Words | Self Selected Reading

Writing

• early mini lessons
  
  
• fluent mini lessons topics, brainstorming, and beginnings
  
  
• writing mini lessons BEGINNINGS
  
  
• writing beginnings mini lesson #6
  
  
• fluent writing mini lessons ENDINGS
  
  
• writing mini lessons mechanics
  
  
• writing mini lessons WRITING FOR A PURPOSE
  
  
• writing mini lessons style MANIPULATING LANGUAGE
  
  
• writing mini lesson ORGANIZATION
  
  
• stars and wishes conferencing in writing workshop
  
  
• dinosaur themed guided reading, ssr, focus writing
  
  
• gingerbread man guided reading lessons, focused writing
  
  
• important poems
  
  
• Blackburn Cramp Developmental Writing Checklist
  
  
• second grade writing lessons

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Guided Reading

• guided reading SNAKES
  
  
• Whales Reader's Theatre based on Gail Gibbon's book, Whales
  
  
• reader's theatre Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
  
  
• guided reading using OWLS
  
  
• Clifford Guided Reading Comprehension 4 blocks
  
  
• guided reading with Frog and Toad
  
  
• Guided Reading using Gail Gibbon's book Frogs
  
  
• Important Poems to teach comprehension
  
  
• more comprehension activities
  
  
• still more comprehension activities
  
  
• Happy Birthday Moon by Frank Asch
  
  
• Classrooms That Work, chapter 2 mailring discussion
  
  
• Classrooms That Work, chapter three mailring discussion
  
  
• Classrooms That work chapter 5 mailring discussion
  
  
• Classrooms That Work mailring discussion ch 4
  
  
• guided reading listening/reading transfer
  
  
• guided reading -- listening/reading transfer "main idea"
  
  
• Classrooms That Work chapter 6 mailring discussions
  
  
• listening-reading transfer part 3 inferences
  
  
• guided reading discussion from summer 99 mailring
  
  
• dinosaur themed guided reading, ssr, focus writing
  
  
• Listening/Reading Transfer - guided reading
  
  
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
  
  
• mysteries for guided reading
  
  
• guided reading Three Little Pigs (plus wolf, javalinas)
  
  
• guided reading lesson using BATS
  
  
• guided reading "in the night sky"
  
  
• guided reading Stellaluna
  
  
• guided reading TURKEYS
  
  
• gingerbread man guided reading lessons, focused writing
  
  
• Tacky the Penguin guided reading
  
  
• Penguins guided reading
  
  
• quick way to learn about expository text
  
  
• guided reading Uncle Elephant by Arnold Lobel
  
  
• guided reading FROGS nonfiction
  
  
• reading response journal lit logs
  
  
• Chrysanthemum compiled ideas from four blocks ring
  
  
• Pumpkin Unit all 4 blocks
  
  
• The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons
  
  
• nonfiction pumpkin GR with chart
  
  
• Paddle of the Sea GR predictions and rivet
  
  
• Chyrsanthemum GR lessons
  
  
• Chyrsanthemum GR for First Grade
  
  
• Is It Alive? GR 1st Grade

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Working With Words

• word wall chants

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Self Selected Reading

• Think Aloud during SSR Trumpet of the Swans
  
  
• dinosaur themed guided reading, ssr, focus writing
  
  
• Thinking Aloud while reading My Father's Dragon

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