Reading Strategies Mini-lessons
The following mini-lessons were created by middle grades preservice teachers in RE 3150 (Language Arts in the Middle Grades). The mini-lessons on this particular page are reading strategies mini-lessons. The purpose of reading strategies mini-lessons is to help students recognize and internalize the strategies of good readers. (In the Middle, Atwell 1998).
| Bronx Masquerade Introduction | a lesson to assist students with managing a large reading assignment | Dorothy Alice Roberts | Word doc. |
| Reading Territories | a lesson that encourages students to keep a running journal of their reading territories | Johnny Morris | Word doc. |
| Book Group/Literature Circle | a lesson book groups to help students analyze features of science fiction |
Patty Blair | Word doc. |
| Choosing Books and Criteria for Selection | a lesson to teach students about genres and how we choose books to read |
Amanda Holley | Word doc. |
| "Wilcox World of Wisdom" | a lesson to encourage students to think abstractly and read closely | Vic Wilcox | Word doc. |
| Informational Text Reading Strategies | a lesson to give students some strategies they can use in a variety of reading situations to glean meaning from informational texts | Allyson Purser | Word doc. |
| Discovering Books That You Really Like to Read | a lesson to help students discover topics in reading that will spark their interest and encourage them to read without prompting | Gloria Batz | Word doc. |
| Using Sticky Notes as a Reading Strategy | a lesson to guide students in using sticky notes to improve reading comprehension and response | Joyce Jarrard | Word doc. |
| Skimming | a lesson to help students learn the value of skimming | Chris Turner | Word doc. |
| EOG Reading Strategies | a lesson to help students identify and learn about effective EOG Reading strategies and how the strategies are helpful | Tiffiny Hovatter | Word doc. |
| Reading Poetry Aloud | a lesson to teach basic techniques for orally presenting a poem | Casey Robinson | Word doc. |
| Reading Rituals | a lesson to make students aware of rituals they can use to help them with their reading | Suzanne Ingram | Word doc |
| Did You Just Say What I Thought You Said? | a lesson to help students learn what an inference is and how to "read between the lines" |
Nichole Calhoun | Word doc |
| Developing My Reading Style: Creating a Reading Survey | a lesson to teach students to become better readers and writers through the use of a reading survey | Kathy Jhugdeo | Word doc. |
| Magazine Ads and You, the Teenager | a lesson to help students understand how advertisements are geared at persuading them and how ads really work | Aaron Bridges | Word doc. |
| Graphic Organizers | a lesson to teach students a variety of graphic organizers they can use during their reading and writing so that they can work on sequencing, comparison and contrast, and description of subjects |
Amy Steelman | Word doc |
| Speed Reading | a lesson for making reading effective, efficient, and enjoyable instead of laborious and non-productive | Mark Warner | Word doc |
| a lesson to give students strategies for comprehending and extracting important points from an informational text with sample questions |
Brittania Brown |