Mini Lessons: Reading and Writing Workshop on Early Childhood Education

Mini Lessons
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EDUC 551READING MINI LESSON PLAN
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GRADE LEVEL:
* Prekindergarten (Early childhood education)

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Put YOUR Name Here

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DATE: 25/7/23
NEW YORK STATE STANDARDS:This mini-lesson helps students comprehend key ideas and details in accordance with the New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Standards (2017) for Prekindergarten, "PKR2; Retell stories or share information from a text. (RI&RL)." (p. 12).
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVE(S):
After participating in this Literary Analysis Mini-Lesson, students will be able to recognize aspects in texts that draw their attention, which will enhance their ability to retell the stories or information they have derived from a text. They will be able to identify a story's setting and significance, analyze how the characters change, and connect characters with others they have read about before who are similar.
MATERIALS/TECHNOLOGY:
To successfully conduct this mini-lesson, several materials will be used. These include books with colorful images portraying a story, a blackboard, drawing tools such as pencils, plasticine for modeling, comfortable surfaces, and books.
The technologies that will be used will include cameras and recording equipment, which will be used to record, assess, and showcase the progress of individual students, listening exercises to aid in improving listening comprehension, and interactive games.
LANGUAGE SUPPORTS
The students will be able to analyze the different aspects within a text and connect them to form a story (Santos et al., 2012). This mini-lesson helps students practice this language function by helping them draw meaning from text and share the information or retell stories. Some of the common vocabularies that the students will need to be familiar with to practice this function include:
Image: A picture or drawing
Story: A set of words or speech that create meaning and describe a past, present, or future scenario.
Story-telling: The act of telling other people the occurrences of an event, including a past, present, or future scenario.
Read: To read out textual phrases that bring forth meaning.
INTRODUCTORY SCRIPT:"Today, students, you will read your books and tell us a story. When you turn to page one, what do you see? What is the character trying to do? Today we will look at all those characters and each one of us will tell us a story about what they have seen and understood."
MINI LESSON PROCEDURES or ACTIVITIES:
I will help the students identify and explain concepts behind the images within a text: I will allow them to describe what they see in their own words before correcting or backing them up. For instance, If an image depicts an image of a girl dancing, I will allow them to identify the action in the image and gently approve or correct their views. These concepts will be instrumental in developing the stories within their minds (Perry et al., 2023).
I will allow the students to practice the actions being performed within the images. By doing this, the students will be able to understand the images better and relate them to their daily lives. Students learn better b...