Snapshots

Linda Hoyt, author of the popular Revisit, Reflect, Retell, returns with the definitive guide to conducting minilessons across the literacy spectrum.

LINDA HOYT has many years of experience teaching in elementary classrooms. She has also worked as a reading specialist, a staff developer, a curriculum specialist, and is currently a full-time consultant. Her special love is creating environments where children engage as active participants in the learning process.

Acknowledgments

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Getting Started with Minilessons

1

(8)

Why Teach Minilessons?

1

(1)

Snapshots Is About Minilessons for Literacy

1

(1)

Show Them What You Want Them to Do

2

(1)

Provide Guided Practice

2

(1)

Move Toward Independent Practice

2

(1)

Allow for Reflection

2

(1)

The Process

2

(2)

Keeping Track of Minilessons

4

(1)

Planning Future Minilessons

5

(1)

Using Student Work Samples

5

(1)

Varying Your Minilessons

6

(1)

Small Segments of Time

6

(1)

Minilesson Topics

7

(2)

Reading Strategies Alive! Knowing What to Do and When to Do It

9

(50)

Developing a Strategic Stance

9

(2)

Good Reader Strategies

11

(1)

I Am a Good Reader

12

(1)

Personal Strategy List

13

(2)

Personal Reading Strategies List

15

(1)

``I Wonder'' Questions

16

(1)

``I Wonder...''

17

(1)

Fix It! Bookmarks

18

(2)

Fix It! Bookmark Templates

20

(1)

Strategy Cards

21

(2)

Strategy Card Templates

23

(1)

Cloze in Big and Little Books

24

(1)

Cloze on the Overhead

25

(1)

A Cloze Poem Activity

26

(1)

Predicting Letters and Words

27

(2)

Cloze Activities

29

(1)

Morning Message

30

(1)

Reviewing My Own Strategies

31

(1)

Personal Monitoring Log

32

(1)

Strategy Poem

33

(1)

Vocabulary Replacement

34

(1)

Strategy Reflections

35

(1)

Group Think Aloud/Activating Prior Knowledge

36

(3)

Poems for Think Alouds

39

(3)

Newspaper Article

42

(1)

Visualizing During Reading

43

(1)

Visualization

44

(3)

Strategy Challenge

47

(1)

Personal Reading Assessment

48

(1)

My Personal Strategy Review

49

(2)

Reading Log

51

(1)

Strategy Scoring Guide

52

(2)

Reading Profile

54

(1)

Running Record Form

55

(1)

Emergent Literacy Profile

56

(3)

Showtime! A Celebration of Oral Reading

59

(16)

Reading with Meaning

60

(1)

Performing Our Favorite Stories

61

(1)

Performing Readers Theater Straight from the Book

62

(2)

Readers Theater: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

64

(2)

Readers Theater: Poetry

66

(3)

Readers Theater: Expository Text

69

(1)

Rhythm and Music to Support Oral Reading

70

(2)

Fast and Slow Reading

72

(1)

Scoring Guide for Fluency and Expression

73

(2)

Phonemic Awareness: Using Our Ears to Make Sense of Sounds

75

(16)

In the Bag!

77

(1)

You DON'T Say!

78

(1)

Name Games

79

(1)

Innovating with Familiar Stories

80

(1)

Making the Most of Sentence Stems

81

(1)

Elkonian Boxes

82

(2)

Elkonian Boxes Template

84

(1)

Sing It Out

85

(6)

Building Knowledge of Print: Sounds Symbols, and Sight Words in Action

91

(36)

Observe: Check for Sound/Symbol Use in Reading and Writing

91

(2)

Plan: Understand Which Sounds Have the Highest Levels of Utilities

93

(1)

Teach: Stimulate Long-Term Memory Through Connections to Real Reading and Writing

94

(1)

Phonetic Writing Analysis

95

(1)

Writing Analysis

96

(1)

Pattern Searching

97

(1)

Personal Phonics Books

98

(1)

Supporting Phonic Understandings

99

(1)

Cloze to Support Phonic Understanding

100

(1)

Letter Detectives

101

(2)

Reading Necklaces

103

(2)

More Name Games

105

(2)

Rimes in Action

107

(1)

A Phonics Poetry Game

108

(1)

Phonics Fun Poetry!

109

(1)

Dot to Dot Scramble

110

(2)

Catch the Word!

112

(2)

Add It Up!

114

(2)

Three-Letter Word Strategy

116

(2)

Personal Alphabet Strips

118

(1)

Catalog Catch

119

(1)

Little Words in Big Words

120

(1)

Sight Words

121

(1)

Finding Common Words

122

(2)

Additional Activities for Learning Common Words

124

(1)

Innovation for The Snow

125

(2)

John Burningham

Minilessons for Guided Reading and Literature Discussion

127

(36)

Kidshop

128

(4)

Creating a T-Chart for Kidshop

132

(1)

Minilessons with Literature Discussion Groups

133

(1)

Profile of Reading Development/Fluent Reader

134

(2)

Profile of Reading Development/Emergent Reader

136

(1)

Literature Circle Poems

137

(1)

Discussion Starters and Stoppers

138

(1)

Stems to Start a Discussion

139

(1)

Memorable Moments

140

(1)

Justifying My Opinions

141

(1)

Making Connections

142

(1)

Pencils In!

143

(1)

Question It

144

(1)

Literature Circles with the Newspaper

145

(1)

News Article for the Overhead

146

(1)

Minilessons for Guided Reading

147

(1)

Matching Pictures and Text

148

(3)

Pictures Make a Big Difference

151

(2)

Cut-up Sentences and Mini Pocket Charts

153

(2)

Acetate Overlays

155

(2)

Trick Me!

157

(1)

Strategy Glove

158

(1)

Partner Retells

159

(2)

Prompts for Teachers to Support Reading Strategies

161

(2)

Independent Reading: Personalizing the Learning in Books I Choose Myself

163

(32)

Lots of Books, and Lots of Time!

165

(3)

Making Independent Reading the Best It Can Be

168

(2)

Independent Think Alouds

170

(3)

Choosing a Just-Right Book

173

(2)

Keeping a Genre Log

175

(2)

Genre Log

177

(1)

Book Reviews

178

(2)

Book Review Guidelines

180

(1)

Key Words to Summarize

181

(3)

Using Personal Literacy Frames

184

(2)

Pattern for Literacy Frame

186

(1)

Conducting Conferences During Independent Reading

187

(2)

Reading Conferences

189

(1)

Preparing for a Conference

190

(1)

Providing Feedback to Readers

191

(2)

Reading Record for Individual Conferences

193

(2)

Informational Text: Strategies for Success in All Content Areas

195

(32)

Using a Table of Contents

197

(2)

Word Sorts to Stimulate and Build Prior Knowledge

199

(4)

Word Sort Template

203

(1)

Expository Reading Strategies Bookmark

204

(2)

Getting the Most from Pictures

206

(2)

Cloze with Nonfiction

208

(2)

Table of Contents Predictions

210

(2)

Go for the Gold!

212

(2)

Go for the Gold! Strategy

214

(1)

Skim and Scan It Checklist

215

(1)

Map It Out Strategy

216

(1)

Dealing with Directions

217

(1)

Writing Your Own Directions

218

(1)

Gotcha!

219

(1)

Title It

220

(2)

Pick a Word (Inferential Reasoning)

222

(2)

The Third Time Around

224

(1)

Think and Read Poster

225

(2)

Writing: Collecting My Thoughts, Telling My Stories, Moving Forward as a Writer

227

(22)

Writing Self-Evaluation Chart

228

(2)

Note Writing and List Making

230

(3)

Parents as Partners in Reflection

233

(2)

The Punctuation Song

235

(1)

Revising with Scissors

236

(2)

Creating Interest with Words

238

(1)

Varying My Sentences

239

(2)

Peer Editing

241

(1)

Peer Editing Checklist

242

(1)

Personal Writing Record

243

(1)

Antonym Antics

244

(2)

Dealing with Tired Words

246

(1)

Managing Writers Workshop with a Planning Board

247

(2)

Bibliography

249

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