[MOSAIC] length of mini lessons

[Ron Borchert]

keep your mini lesson very explicit, and short.  I do
realize it is hard to get the read aloud in, do the vocab, then teach the
lesson, have time for them to practice with you, then they practice
independently, but if you keep the teaching part short, chances are they'll
remember what you said and us what you said.

One way to keep the length of your mini lessons short is to do the read aloud at another time.  That is a major tenet of Lucy Calkins' mini lesson structure.  Just use the part of the text that matches your teaching point.

Barb Parry