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 Reflection
// Sample Lesson 2 //


 * Purpose: **We Are Learning to make connections with our prior knowledge and the text.

- make and explain text connections; Text-Text, Text-Self, Text-World Introducing Making Connections. Discuss the three text – types, text-self, text-world, text-text. Read a passage from ‘MacBeth You Idiot’ and model using sticky notes to make either T-S, T-W, T-T connections. || Give students a passage of text photocopied and ask them to read quietly and make their own connections along the side using sticky notes. Ask for a few to share. || “A strategy I used to help me understand the text was…” || Examples of Mini Lesson Focuses
 * Success Criteria: ** We will Be Successful when we:
 * ** Mini Lesson **
 * ** Follow Up Activity **
 * Independent Reading (during which conduct Reading CAFE Conference or Strategy Group) – 30 mins ||
 * ** Reflection ** Reflective Journal

Reader's Cafe - Conferencing Focus



Independent Reading Guide

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Example Lesson

- make connections to the text. - identify text-self, text-text and text-world connections - develop connections that are deep and help us to understand the text better, to visualise, predict or empathise.
 * Learning Criteria: **
 * W ** e **A**re **L**earning **T**o…
 * Success Criteria: **
 * W ** e **W**ill **B**e **S**uccessful **W**hen **W**e…

Mini Lesson Focus Re-visit with students the different text connection types and introduce to students the three focuses that text connections can take. Visualise, Predict, Empahtise.

Read first page of ‘Running with the Horses’ and model verbally making connections.

Follow Up Activitiy Continue to read ‘Running with the Horses’, students write their connections on sticky notes as I read (pause at the end of each page). After a few pages stop and ask students to share with each other.