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Best Practices in Action

What every Literacy Lesson from Smekens Education has in common

Each lesson is short and focused.
Each mini-lesson video focuses on a narrow facet of a single skill in the series.
Each lesson has four parts.
The four research-based components of an effective mini-lessonare in included in each video lesson.
Each lesson uses an anchor chart.
By using an instructional chart that grows throughout the series, students are reminded of key points.
Each lesson is part of a scaffold.
Initial skills set a foundation for more complex instruction to follow.

Link to Lessons

SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE LESSONS

Readers have different voices.

Grades K-1

Lesson 1: Introduce the Reading Voice and Thinking Voice
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Lesson 2: Apply Reader Voices to nonfiction text
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Lesson 3: Mute the Distracting Voice
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Lesson 4: Record reader thoughts
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Grades 2-3
Lesson 1: Introduce the Reading Voice and Thinking Voice
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Lesson 2: Apply Reader Voices to nonfiction text
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Lesson 3: Apply Reader Voices to all text types
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Lesson 4: Mute the Distracting Voice
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Lesson 5: Record reader thoughts
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Grades 4-6

Lesson 1: Introduce the Reading Voice and Thinking Voice
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Lesson 2: Apply Reader Voices to all text types
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Lesson 3: Mute the Distracting Voice
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Lesson 4: Record reader thoughts
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Readers make inferences.

Grades K-1

Lesson 1: Zoom in to collect multiple text clues
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Lesson 2: See patterns and connections
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Lesson 3: Explain inferences in writing
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Lesson 4: Read, infer, and write—all in one sitting
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Grades 2-3

Lesson 1: Zoom in to collect multiple text clues
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Lesson 2: Look for patterns and relationships
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Lesson 3: Explain inferences in writing
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Lesson 4: Read, infer, and write—all in one sitting
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Grades 4-6

Readers retell/summarize.

Grades K-1

Lesson 1: Retell stories orally
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Lesson 2: Retell stories in writing
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Lesson 3: Retell portions of nonfiction orally
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Lesson 4: Retell portions of nonfiction in writing
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Lesson 5: Read nonfiction, retell, and write—all in one sitting
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Grades 2-3

Lesson 1: Retell stories orally
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Lesson 2: Retell stories in writing
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Lesson 3: Summarize literature using story elements
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Lesson 4: Retell portions of nonfiction orally
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Lesson 5: Retell portions of nonfiction in writing
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Lesson 6: Read nonfiction, retell, and write—all in one sitting
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Grades 4-6

Lesson 1: Paraphrase an author's idea
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Lesson 2: Summarize literature using story elements
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Lesson 3: Group nonfiction text details in preparation to write a summary
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Lesson 4: Summarize sections of nonfiction text
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Lesson 5: Read and summarize nonfiction in one sitting
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Series 4: Readers question & predict.
Series 5: Readers track details across a text.