Name: Rheagan Kean Topic: Spelling
Mini Lesson Template
Mini Lesson Topic K.FFL.PWR.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis
skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text.
Name the teaching point.
1. Demonstrate knowledge of one-to-one letter sound
correspondence by producing the most frequent sound for each
consonant.
2. Associate the long and short phonemes with common spellings
for the five major vowels.
3. Read common high-frequency words by sight.
4. Decode regularly spelled CVC words.
5. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the
letters that differ.
Materials White crayons
Gather materials, more text… Markers
Worksheet
Smart Board
List of CVC words
Camera
White Board
White Board Markers
Journals
Connection During the last lesson we learned about CVC words. We learned
Tell them what you taught the how to associate different long and short vowels with our
previous lesson. During the
different CVC words for the week.
last workshop, we learned how
to...
Explicit Instruction The teacher will prepare for the lesson by handing out
Tell them how to do it. Watch markers, and a white crayon, and a worksheet to each student.
me do it… or Let’s take a look
at how (author) does this
The teacher will sit at her desk with her paper under the
when s/he writes camera. The teacher will read a CVC word from the board
aloud. The teacher will write the CVC word in white crayon and
then color over it with a marker.
Guided Practice The teacher will tell the students to pair up. One student will
Ask them to try it out with a read a CVC word off of the board. Both students will write the
partner, or with you for a few
minutes. Now try it out with a
word down on their own paper. The students will go back and
partner… forth with this until their worksheets are complete.
Independent Practice The students will be asked to write a five sentence story in
Remind students how the their journals using at least 5 CVC words.
teaching point can be used in
independent writing. (There The students will then switch journals with their partner. They
should be a link between the
mini lesson and the students’
will read their partner’s story and circle the CVC words that
independent writing lives). their partner used.
The students will repeat the process one more time, and they
are to use 5 new CVC words.
Group Wrap Up The teacher will remind the students that knowing their CVC
Restate the teaching point. words well is important because they will appear often in
Ask: Did you try what was
homework, classwork, and books that they read.
taught? Did it work for you?
How will it affect your future
writing?