Mini Lesson for Writer’s Workshop
Common Core State Standard: Write a piece in which they introduce the topic they are writing about and share their opinion.
Grade 2
Skills being taught: Allow for students to participate in the writing process, as well as practice their phonemic skills. Phonemic skills can be defined as reading and pronouncing words through literacy or writing to enhance their phonemic awareness. Students can hear the parts of phonemes in their writing.
As the teacher, I will demonstrate a personal example of writing by writing it on the board for the class to visualize. The class will be on the rug in front of the board at first to listen to my demonstration. After I write the sentence on the board, I will verbally read what I have wrote. By doing this slowly, I will be able to demonstrate how the sentence sounds and how the students can hear the parts of phonemes in the writing piece. I will then ask the class to go back and sit at their desks. With guided practice, I will suggest for my students to read along with me for the writing that I displayed on the board. They will be able to practice how words, letters, and sentences sound together to form various sounds. Therefore, I will lead the class in the writing process and how to verbally sound out the words that are formed. After that, I will initiate individual rehearsal for writing where students can draw upon a topic of their choice and write about it in the workshop. They can then read aloud their writing piece to hear parts of phonemes.
Content differentiation: With a student who has dyslexia, I could encourage a technique to utilize text-to-speech. With the writer’s workshop, the words or sentences that are displayed can be delivered to the student through text-to-speech. For a student with dysgraphia, I can provide the child with paper that has raised lines on it. This can help the student form letters and words in the right place when they are writing.
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