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The next three chapters of Revisiting The Reading Workshop  focused on ways to set up mini lessons. It took three different types of mini lessons, procedures, reading stratigies and skills and literary elements and techniques, and gave ways to set up mini lessons on each. The purpose of these lessons and all the planning that goes into each one is to empower the student which I believe is very important. At times the material seems to hard in a first grade classroom but I do agree with the author that younger students need a lot of modeling before they can complete tasks in workshops by themselves. These chapters also gave an example of twenty days of lessons which is useful to people who want to set up workshops and have never done them before. It also gives stratigies and skills that need to be covered. The most useful information that I received from this reading is the list of books. It gave a list of books and what skills they cover. I am excited to read these books and find the different skills they cover and then use them in my workshops.