The minilessons go hand in hand in hand with the CAFE strategies.
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Heather Johnson
4/29/2013 06:58:40 am
The lessons grow with the reader, the focus begins with reading strategies, tackling tricky words and small group work. But then the lessons begin to go deeper with character analyzation and nonfiction reading. Also, as students become more independent they begin book clubs which really requires the students to do their own thinking and to explain it to others. It is a lot of higher level thinking. The themes alternate between fiction and nonfiction but there is definitely a lot more nonfiction involved which is different from what I had done in the past.